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Poetry

Publisher’s Description: We find great work before anyone else. Since its founding in 1912, Poetry has been famous for discovering poets very early in their careers. T. S. Eliot’s first publication, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” was in our pages, as were early poems of Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anne Sexton, Seamus Heaney, and many, many others. Discovering new voices—voices that speak to this time, this moment—remains our primary commitment today. Though we regularly present new work by the most famous poets in America, over half of all our contributions are from poets appearing in the magazine for the first time. A subscription to Poetry will give you the most important voices in American poetry before they have become established figures. You’ll discover poems before they are “literature” and will have the chance to experience them outside of any classroom or anthology. When you subscribe to Poetry, you join a select but substantial group of readers in all fifty states and in forty-five countries around the world. No other literary magazine has a more devoted or discriminating audience.

Recent issues:

The February 2012 issue features new poems by A.E. Stallings, Philip Levine, D. Nurkse, José Antonio Rodríguez, Robert Pinsky, Connie Voisine, Joanie Mackowski, Dean Young, Vijay Seshadri, Philip Metres, Albert Goldbarth, Wendy Videlock, and others; reprints of poems from Poetry's history, including work by Rabindranath Tagore, Lisel Mueller, Weldon Kees, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Janet Lewis, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, and Robert Creeley; a prose piece on faith and poetry, with contributions by Jericho Brown, Fanny Howe,Kazim Ali, Jean Valentine, Grace Paley, Jane Hirshfield, and Alicia Ostriker, among others.

The January 2012 issue marks the beginnings of Poetry magazine’s centenary celebrations. In this issue: new poems from Louise Glück, Stephen Dunn, Joseph Spece, Michelle Boisseau, David Ferry, Amy Beeder, Michael Ryan, A.E. Stallings, Stephen Edgar, and Kathryn Starbuck; essays by Eliza Griswold and Clive James; Adam Kirsch reviews The Letters of T.S. Eliot; V. Penelope Pelizzon looks back on some forgotten poems from Poetry’s first few decades, presented with archival photographs of early magazine contributors.

What is a Lidl? A “low-definition attorney”? “Where, besides in the letter “W,” do “Emerson and Bush dovetail?” Open the December 2011 issue of Poetry to read the answers to these questions and many more. This month’s Q&A issue includes new poems from Dan Beachy-Quick, Camille T. Dungy, David Yezzi, Maxine Kumin, Dick Allen, Alice Lyons, Linda Kunhardt, Stephen Yenser, Fanny Howe, and Eduardo C. Corral.