Poetry Magazine July/August 2021

Poetry Foundation Magazine

by Ashley M. Jones (Editor)

Contributors:

Ashley M. Jones
Kwame Opoku-Duku
Rob Schlegel
L. Lamar Wilson
Xandria Phillips
Jennifer Horne
Aliyah Cotton
Voice Porter
Aileen Cassinetto
JoAnn Balingit
Sofia M. Starnes
Luisa A. Igloria
Debora Kuan
Josh Alex Baker
Monica Ong
Kimberly Casey
Beth Ann Fennelly
Tennessee Hill
Jacqueline Allen Trimble
Alina Stefanescu
Jason McCall
Pablo Otavalo
Janice Lobo Sapigao
Lêdo Ivo
Elizabeth Bradfield
Charlotte Pence
Donna Aza Weir-Soley
Nabila Lovelace
Jason Méndez
Kai Coggin
Hyejung Kook
Laura Secord
M. Bartley Seigel
Kwoya Fagin Maples
Crystal Simone Smith
TC Tolbert

Genres: Poetry

87 pages, Perfectbound

Published July 1, 2021

Reviews

[BookishStitcher]

It's hard to give one rating to this because it's a compilation of poems by several different authors with various styles. I will say that I enjoyed this a lot. I didn't love every poem, but I did find value in each of them.

[Shivangi ☁️]

I have always been worried about some grand bout of inspiration to strike me in order for a poem to come to fruition but reading some of the works in here made me realise that I can romanticize my every day existence rather than being tangled up in an affair of finding the perfect metaphor and so on. To create a celebration of the mundane. Thank you for this !

[Simon]

Particularly Kwame Opoku-Duku and Jacqueline Allen Trimble.

[Erick Mertz]

Decent issue, a handful of nice poems, some interesting fold-out work.

[Timothy]

I enjoyed reading the essays by the poet laureates most in this issue.