Poems
Poem of The Day
By Steven Leyva
Sheer luck. Dumb-as-a-hammer-
without-the-handle luck. Two-yolks-
in-the-egg luck. The fourth leaf on
the clover isn’t enough. Leave the rabbit’s
feet alone. Beginner’s luck. One
bounce of the Plinko chip into the bonus.
The universe’s casual lagniappe. Crossing-
the-platform-and-catching-the-other-train luck.
Even-better-when…
without-the-handle luck. Two-yolks-
in-the-egg luck. The fourth leaf on
the clover isn’t enough. Leave the rabbit’s
feet alone. Beginner’s luck. One
bounce of the Plinko chip into the bonus.
The universe’s casual lagniappe. Crossing-
the-platform-and-catching-the-other-train luck.
Even-better-when…
Poem of The Day
By Fady Joudah
Between what should and what should not be
Everything is liable to explode. Many times
I was told who…
Everything is liable to explode. Many times
I was told who…
Poem of The Day
By A. Van Jordan
Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, 1956
Minor chords ring across Stratford farmland. We jazz
wherever we’re called. Local ears lift to see jazz.
Their hearts hear in places their minds roam.
Oh, if the bard could be Black! She’d be jazz.
If the hogs across the way, just for a moment, were swans…
Minor chords ring across Stratford farmland. We jazz
wherever we’re called. Local ears lift to see jazz.
Their hearts hear in places their minds roam.
Oh, if the bard could be Black! She’d be jazz.
If the hogs across the way, just for a moment, were swans…
Browse All Poems
Featured This Month
Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong
Featured Poetic Term
Glossary Terms
An eight-line stanza having just two rhymes and repeating the first line as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line as the eighth. See Sandra McPherson’s “…
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy CM BurroughsThere is lightness within these downtrodden lives!
Poem GuideBy Austin AllenBridging two languages and generations in one intricate poem.
From the Poetry Magazine Archive
- PoemBy Carmen GiménezIn Lima, my mother screams from her bed and from a garden
and in the parlor of her nursing home, and… - PoemBy Nikki GiovanniI watched Mommy
Cook
Though I cooked
With Grandmother
With Grandmother I learned
To pluck chickens
… - PoemBy Tayi TibbleRinsing the sea salt out of our bikinis
with the drinking water and getting a slap
upside the head from…
Schools and Movements
- Glossary Terms
Confessional poetry
- Glossary Terms
Affrilachian poets
- Glossary Terms
Symbolist poets
- Glossary Terms
Imagism
- Glossary Terms
Slam