July & August 2023

POETRY Magazine - July & August 2023, Volume 222, Number 4

Best Poem of the Issue: Rowan Ricardo Phillips - Child of Nature

Overall Issue Rating: 3/5

• Adrian Matejka

  • Editor’s Note, July/August 2023 Rating 3/5

• Kevin Young

  • The Stair Rating 2/5

  • Usher Rating 2/5

  • Diptych Rating 2/5

• Susan Browne

  • Romance Rating 4/5

  • Down the Lane Rating 5/5

• Teresa Soto

  • From “Nudos” Rating 1/5

  • From “Knots” Rating 1/5

• Michelle Peñaloza

  • All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems Rating 3/5

  • Utang Na Loob Rating 4/5

• Jennifer Chang

  • Dialogues (Against Literature) Rating 5/5

  • The Age of Unreason Rating 5/5

• Huan He

  • Golden Hour Rating 3/5

• Kaitlin Rizzo

  • Epitaph as My Mother’s Daughter Rating 2/5

• Tomas Tranströmer

  • Dagsmeja

  • Midday Thaw Rating 4/5

  • Öppna och slutna rum

  • Open and Closed Spaces Rating 3/5

  • Andrum juli

  • Breathing Space, July Rating 3/5

  • Långsam musik

  • Slow Music Rating 3/5

  • Det öppna fönstret

  • The Open Window Rating 3/5

  • Markgenomskådande

  • Seeing through the Ground Rating 3/5

  • Efter någons död

  • After Someone’s Death Rating 2/5

• Annie Wenstrup

  • Sukdu’a Rating 5/5

• Brody Parrish Craig

  • Pharmhouse Rating 5/5

  • Thorazine at 10:00 a.m. Rating 5/5

• Wong May

  • The Last Film Rating 4/5

  • Moving K. to Glendalough Rating 3.5/5

• Jaswinder Bolina

  • English as a Second Language Rating 3/5

  • The Plague on TV Rating 1/5

  • Lines Composed upon Changing a Diaper Rating 5/5

  • The Usual Entertainment Rating 4/5

• Joyelle McSweeney

  • Death Style 3.11.21 Rating 1/5

  • Death Style 8.17.20 Rating 1/5

• Rickey Laurentiis

  • Testament to the Agency of Man Rating 2/5

• Michael Metivier

  • Currency Rating 5/5

  • Cape Song Rating 5/5

• Laura Paul Watson

  • Zarxio: Injection Rating 4/5

  • Doxorubicin: Infusion Rating 3/5

• Rowan Ricardo Phillips

  • Child of Nature Rating 5/5

• Melba Joyce Boyd

  • Ever Vigilant: Julius V. Combs, MD Rating 2/5

• Bradley Trumpfheller

  • Alarm Rating 1/5

  • Gravity Rating 1/5

• Richie Hofmann

  • Dolphin Rating 5/5

  • Pantheon Rating 3/5

  • Breed Me Rating 4/5

• jason b. crawford

  • Untitled 1975–86 ["There was a boy who once ruined"] Rating 2/5

  • Untitled 1975–86 ["What sweet death I wish"] Rating 5/5

  • Untitled 1975–86 ["By now, the docks have succumbed to the oyster shells"] Rating 3/5