National Poetry Month Special: Free Downloads of Our April 2019 Issue & More

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we’re happy to offer our readers a free download of the April 2019 issue of Poetry! You can find the free issue in the Poetry magazine app, available through iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon. 

The April 2019 issue features our signature mix of poems; a special “Halal If You Hear Me” portfolio with excerpts from the book of the same name, edited and introduced by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo, and published this month from Haymarket Books; and three essays that comprise the latest installment of our exchange with the Poetry Review: Chris Moss considers Leonard Cohen’s “unfinished business”; Angela Conway visits Elizabeth Bishop’s house in Nova Scotia (and shares her photographs); and Sandeep Parmar asks why there aren’t more poems about miscarriage. Read through the whole issue for new poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts, Marilyn Nelson, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, José Olivarez, Jane Yeh, Adonis (translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks), and many others.

In the app, you can listen to this month’s Poetry magazine podcast, hosted by the editors, with readings from Marilyn Nelson, Ru Freeman, José Olivarez, and Ashanti Anderson. You’ll also find a playlist for the issue, curated by Jane Yeh, and plenty of recommendations in our latest Reading List.

That’s not all! We created a special digital collection of the past five years of Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows, available for free in our app. If you reside in the US or are a US citizen, age 21–31, you still have time to apply to be one of our 2019 fellows. The deadline is April 30. Submit your application and learn more here.

Once you download the Poetry app, be sure to check back each month. Each issue will have select content available for free and each individual issue will be available for purchase. Poetry subscribers can access the full digital issues and all the extras for free in the app every month as part of our print/digital bundle—just enter your email address when prompted to log in. Not a subscriber? Sign up now with our special National Poetry Month offer: only $20 for 11 issues ($32 for international subscribers). Click here and enter the promo code NPM19 at the top to get this discount.

There is nothing like seeing the latest issue of Poetry in your mailbox or at your local bookstore, but we hope you’ll love seeing the magazine in this accessible digital format too. It allows you to read Poetry wherever you go, even offline, and it offers new ways of discovering, saving, and sharing the poems you love. If you have any comments or questions, please email us at [email protected].

If you’re in Chicago, join us on April 25 at 7 PM for our Spring Party, with special guests Eloisa Amezcua, Paige Lewis, and Alyssa Moore! We’ll see you there.

—The editors

PS. Are you a poet who engages with and serves your community through your creative practice? Then you should apply for the fourth annual Chicago Poetry Incubator! More details here.