December 2020

Cathie Bleck

Everybody I know wants
to score a quick fix for
the escalating problem
of closeness.
Marcus Wicker

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Tara Betts
Noor Hindi
Leila Chatti
Jordan Keller-Martinez
Talvikki Ansel

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

The Long Labors

Breaking [News]

The summer I lived as a wolf

Multiple people reading Poetry magazine, each framed in colorful arched shapes. Red and black text reads. "Special Offer. 5 months of Poetry for $15"

Jane Wong
- The Long Labors
Noor Hindi
- Breaking [News]
- Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying
Pippa Little
- The summer I lived as a wolf
Marcus Wicker
- Dear Mothership,
- Toilet Paper Invective with Self-Flagellation
Ashley M. Jones
- Hymn of Our Jesus & the Holy Tow Truck
- Friendly Skies, or, Black Woman Speaks Herself into God
T.J. Clark
- Afterwards
Talvikki Ansel
- Hornets’ Nest in Four Seasons
Anna Leahy
- World of Glass
Luther Hughes
- Leave the Crows Out of It
- Mercy
- Thine Will Be Done
Darius Simpson
- Perhaps We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
jayy dodd
- Orifice Jones
Leila Chatti
- Echo (All She Lost She Lost)
Lance Larsen
- Quail Egg
A.D. Lauren-Abunassar
- Self Portrait as My Father (Trying to Use Siri) (Filling the Time)
- I Drop a White Pill in My Sink
- Something I Wrote Down
Imani Cezanne
- I want to punch all the white people in Oakland
Maggie Millner
- From “Couplets”
Austin Smith
- The Leaves
Ange Mlinko
- Approaching the Ground
- The Whisper Networks
- According to Ovid, the Hottest Summer on Record
William Fuller
- Never Said
Brayan Salinas
- what reality?
- first year of college
- I Refuse to Report Bugs to Their Creator
Philip Gross
- A woodpecker’s
Alec Finlay
- Let me remind you (the dream poem)
John Lennox
- Loose Gowns for Mackerel
Isabella Borgeson
- in a room of “climate change activists”
- the ghosts of sea salt corpses
- ghazal on how to birth a boy
- Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Jon Davis
- Orality
Kemi Alabi
- A Financial Planner Asks About My Goals, or Golden Shovel with Cardi B’s “Money”
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
- magenta
- doppelgänger
Jordan Keller-Martinez
- Altivolant
- Passerines

Visual

Damon Locks
- “Carving Out Rights from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex”
Meredith Stern
- Foreword
Carlos J. Ayala
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 4
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 5
Tara Betts
- Think, Think
Aryules Bivens
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 6
Juan Luna
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 7
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14
Salvador Herrera
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 9
Tongo Eisen-Martin
- Pennies for the Opera
C. McLaurin
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18