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jbmorgan86's review
2.0
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.
meganlilyflower's review
challenging
slow-paced
3.0
This edition of the magazine had a lot of very flowery and dense poems which were not for me. I liked “Black Woman Speaks herself into God”, “The Leaves”, and “ghazal on how to birth a boy”. Highly recommend looking up those three poems and them moving on from this issue. (The visual section is also very interesting in this issue!)
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