POETRY Magazine cover of January 2019 issue

January 2019

 
  • James Tate
  • Jorie Graham
  • Yi Sang
  • Khaled Mattawa
  • Anne Winters
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From this Issue

Poem
Unlike the monarch, though
the asteroid also slipped
quietly from its colony
on its annular migration
between Jupiter and Mars,
enticed maybe by
our planetary pollen
as the monarch by my neighbor’s
slender-leaved milkweed.
Unlike it even when
the fragrant Cretaceous
atmosphere meteorized
the airborne rock,
flaring it into what might
have looked to...
Poem
          Mitzy fell asleep as soon as we got home, but I didn’t.
The evening had upset me. Why did Jack keep asking me if I’d
been married before? And why did my answer not satisfy him?
It was...
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From a Frank O'Hara Notebook
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