January & February 2025
POETRY Magazine - January & February 2025, Volume 225, Number 4
Best Poem of the Issue: Shubhi Sahni - Hindsight
Overall Issue Rating: 5/5
Elizabeth Acevedo
Guest Editor’s Note Rating 5/5
Jesse Holth
Letter to Us, Younger Rating 4/5
Miguel A. Vega
Wanderlust Rating 3/5
Allison Swenson
Elementary Magic Rating 5/5
Audrey Rose
the crop top quandary—dept. store edition Rating 5/5
Cecelia Taunton
Changes Rating 4/5
T.S. Leonard
Instructions for Building Your First Time Machine Rating 4/5
The Time Traveler Finally Falls in Love Rating 5/5
Vanessa Deering
Jessica Jiang
March Rating 3/5
Gavriella Gilbert
Her Grimoire Rating 4/5
Colby Cedar Smith
Skeleton Key Rating 4/5
Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi
Olive Franklin
Eileen Rating 5/5
Jay Jerbi
How Did You Know You Were Trans? Rating 1/5
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
As a child, I knew nothing about grief Rating 3.5/5
Shubhi Sahni
Hindsight Rating 5/5
Janiru Liyanage
Ars Poetica: Ambulthiyal Abecedarian Rating 5/5
Orange Tree Rating 3/5
Maeve Marien-McManus
Beach Rating 1/5
Khari Dawson
Mother’s Mother Rating 2.5/5
Trina Das
Scissors Like Caesars Rating 4/5
Ariana Lee
Salt and Sea Rating 3/5
Hannah Bambach
Omen Rating 2.5/5
Sarah Aziz
Amelia Loeffler
Girl Blood Ritual One Rating 4/5
Girl Blood Ritual Two Rating 5/5
Evan Wang
母念 // 思母 Rating 4/5
Lesley Younge
Dispatch from the Edge of the Universe Rating 5/5
Tamsin Moore
Lana Del Rey on Country Roads Rating 1/5
Abriella Guertin
Tangled Braids Rating 5/5
Zoe Dorado
Prestige Rating 5/5
Dianna Vega
boy laughs at my period-stained skirt Rating 3/5
Max Fischer
Closets Are Made of Midwestern Thunderstorms Rating 5/5
Kaylee Cheng
Things not to do to a grieving mother Rating 2.5/5
Margarita Engle
How to Awaken a Sleeping Language Rating 2/5
Caroline Laganas
Wild Blueberry Muffins for Beginners Rating 4/5
Phil Kaye
Two Bills Rating 5/5
Shira Haus
Universal Truths Rating 5/5
Fatimah Asghar
He Was Chaotic Rating 2/5
the women in my family Rating 2/5
Harrison Hamm
Burn Theory Rating 2.5/5
Notes for the Newly Winged Rating 3/5
Nicole Tallman
Middle School Dance Rating 3/5
Anya Johnson
Where the Sky Is Rating 5/5
Serena Alagappan
Sycamore Rating 4/5
Ide Amari Thompson
Rain Song Rating 4/5
Kyle Okeke
The Sun, in Lagos Rating 0/5
Kate Hubbard
First Rating 4/5
Yetta Rose Stein
Ennui When Watching the Ocean Rating 5/5
Carole Boston Weatherford