Poetry 2016-04

Poetry Magazine APRIL 2016

Sarah Browning, Ocean Vuong, Dawn Martin, Jennifer Bartlett, Jan Beatty, Reginald Betts, Martha Collins, Linda Hogan, Craig Perez, Aracelis Girmay, Ben Lerner, Michael Robbins

Content

SPLIT THIS ROCK

SARAH BROWNING Introduction: Split This Rock 2016

OCEAN VUONG Toy Boat A Little Closer to the Edge

DAWN LUNDY MARTIN Our Wandering

JENNIFER BARTLETT From “The Hindrances of a Householder”

JAN BEATTY Stricken Asylum

REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving

REGIE CABICO Daylight Saving Time Flies Like an Instagram of a Weasel Riding a Woodpecker & You Feel Everything Will Be Alright

DOMINIQUE CHRISTINA Chain Gang

MARTHA COLLINS Leaving Behind

LINDA HOGAN When the Body Lost in the Milky Way

CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ Halloween in the Anthropocene, 2015

ARACELIS GIRMAY to the sea From “The Black Maria” luam/asa-luam

ON NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

On National Poetry Month (as Academy of American Poets) Featuring Jen Benka, Edward Hirsch, Olivia Morgan, Ali Liebegott, Amanda Johnston, Samantha Giles, P. Scott Cunningham, Jeff Shotts, Tyler Meier, Andrew White, Richard Blanco, and Brenda Shaughnessy.

THE VIEW FROM HERE

MARIAME KABA Imagining Freedom Poetry as scream, balm, and tool.

MEREDITH WALKER Smart Girls Read Poetry On the value of getting your hair wet.

OMAR KHOLEIF To Speak with Many Tongues at Once The poetry of place—and placelessness.

TILLEKE SCHWARZ Poetry Is Everywhere On texts and textiles.

COMMENT

BEN LERNER From “The Hatred of Poetry” Does poetry make us human?

MICHAEL ROBBINS Make the Machine Sing Christopher Logue’s War Music: An Account of Homer’s “Iliad”