September 2023

POETRY Magazine - September 2023, Volume 222, Number 5

Best Poem of the Issue: Martin Espada - The Monster in the Lake

Honorable Mention: Aaron Smith - Because You’re Queer

Overall Issue Rating: 3/5

• Charif Shanahan

  • Editor’s Note (Rating 3/5)

• Kara Krewer

  • Tartarean Sun (Rating 5/5)

• Cathy Park Hong

  • From “Spring and All” (Rating 3/5)

• Camille Rankine

  • Self-Portrait as Out-Fighter (Rating 3/5)

• Henri Cole

  • 107 Water Street (Rating 2/5)

• Derrick Austin

  • Hours (Rating 4/5)

  • André Leon Talley (Rating 1/5)

• Wang Wei

  • 酬张少府 (Rating 4/5)

  • Thanking Master Zhang with a Poem (Rating 2/5)

• Susan Wan Dolling

  • On “Thanking Master Zhang with a Poem” (Rating 3/5)

• Zakaria Mohammed

  • 2013-1-2

  • January 2 (Rating 2/5)

  • 2013-8-15

  • August 15 (Rating 3/5)

  • 2013-8-16

  • August 16 (Rating 3/5)

• Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

  • On “January 2,” “August 15,” and “August 16”

• J. Estanislao Lopez

  • Poem with Human Intelligence (Rating 4/5)

• Tim Seibles

  • Something Like We Did II (Rating 1/5)

  • Something Like We Did III (Rating 1/5)

  • Something Like We Did IV (Rating 1/5)

• Miron Białoszewski

  • Szkola nieprzyzwyczajenia

  • School of Unhabituation (Rating 4/5)

  • Zielony: więc jest

  • Green: Therefore It Is (Rating 4/5)

• Clare Cavanagh

  • On “School of Unhabituation” and “Green: Therefore It Is”

• Aaron Smith

  • Because You’re Queer (Rating 5/5)

  • Zidovudine (Rating 3/5)

• Keetje Kuipers

  • Selfishness (Rating 2.5/5)

• Ben Purkert

  • Elegy for My Friend Who Was, among Other Things, an Orchestra Conductor (Rating 3/5)

• Nicholas Goodly

  • Crossing the Bridge (Rating 2/5)

  • My Crush Walked into the Library with a Woman on His Arm and I Almost Lost My 4-Year Chip Over It (Rating 1/5)

• Grady Chambers

  • Starlite Boulevard (Rating 5/5)

• Martín Espada

  • The Monster in the Lake (Rating 5/5)

• Rachel Mennies

  • The Door (Rating 4/5)

  • New Meds, Ten-Week Follow-up (Rating 3/5)

• Tomasz Różycki

  • Cień

  • Shadow (Rating 2/5)

• Mira Rosenthal

  • On “Shadow”

• Harryette Mullen

  • Arroyo Seco (Rating 1/5)

  • The Only Ones (Rating 1/5)

  • How Do You Know the Sky Is Falling? (Rating 1/5)

  • Screenplay (Rating 1/5)

• Pablo Texón

  • Sueñu/Suañu

  • Sueñu/Suañu (Rating 3/5)

• Will Howard

  • On “Sueñu/Suañu”

• Nirmal Verma

  • “चीड़ों पर चाँदनी ” से

  • From “Moonlight on Pine Trees” (Rating 2/5)

• Viplav Saini

  • On “Moonlight on Pine Trees”

• Brandon Shimoda

  • Hinotama (Rating 2/5)

  • Hinotama (Rating 2/5)

  • Hinotama (Rating 3/5)

  • Hinotama (Rating 3/5)

• Angie Macri

  • Soundbox (Rating 3/5)

• Richard Blanco

  • Once upon a Time: Surfside, Miami (Rating 2/5)