Poetry Foundation Magazine, December 2020

Poetry Foundation Magazine

by Holly Amos (Editor)

Contributors:
JANE WONG
NOOR HINDI
PIPPA LITTLE
MARCUS WICKER
ASHLEY M. JONES
T.J. CLARK
TALVIKKI ANSEL
ANNA LEAHY
LUTHER HUGHES
DARIUS SIMPSON
JAYY DODD
LEILA CHATTI
LANCE LARSEN
A.D. LAUREN-ABUNASSAR
IMANI CEZANNE
MAGGIE MILLNER
AUSTIN SMITH
ANGE MLINKO
WILLIAM FULLER
BRAYAN SALINAS
PHILIP GROSS
ALEC FINLAY
JOHN LENNOX
ISABELLA BORGESON
JON DAVIS
KEMI ALABI
CYRÉE JARELLE JOHNSON
JORDAN KELLER-MARTINEZ
DAMON LOCKS
MEREDITH STERN
CARLOS J. AYALA
TARA BETTS
ARYULES BIVENS
JUAN LUNA
SALVADOR HERRERA
TONGO EISEN-MARTIN
JUAN LUNA
C. MCLAURIN
ALAN GILBERT
JOHN WILKINSON
ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY

Genres: Poetry

102 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2020

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is my first time reading Poetry magazine. The experience was a bit underwhelming. There are a few really good poems here, a few so abstruse I couldn’t make heads or tails of them, and a few so sexually explicit that they border on pornographic. Standouts include the poems of the Palestinian-American poet Noor Hindi, the young college student Brayan Salinas, and, especially, the poem “The Leaves” by Austin Smith, an ode (?) to the leaves of his family’s dining room table.

[Erick Mertz · Rating 4 out of 5]

A few on-the-nose contemporary issue stinkers, but this was a fairly decent issue.

Here are the good ones:

Noor Hindi: "Fuck Your Letter On Craft, My People Are Dying"
Leila Chatti: "Echo (All She Lost Is Lost)"
AD Lauren-Abunassar: "Self-Portrait As My Father (Trying To Use Siri) (Filling The Time)"
Brayan Salinas: "what reality?"
Alec Finlay: "let me remind you (the dream poem)"

[J.Istsfor Manity · Rating 3 out of 5]

That's the way you finish out the year — with the best issue of the year! Noor Hindi's "Fuck your Lesson on Craft, My People Are Dying" is the best among an excellent selection of poems from Brayan Salinas, Agne Minko, A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, et al.

[Megan Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this month’s collection, generally. The visual section was gorgeous.

[Charles Mitchell · Rating 3 out of 5]

More excellent poems, again seemingly with an emphasis on marginalized people lgbqt and minorities.

[Timothy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A few good ones, most average, no real stinkers