Inside the January Issue of Poetry Magazine

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January 2015

If one saves a butterfly, has one saved the world? —David Shapiro This month's podcast  January 2015: "A tongue is a tongue is a tongue" The editors discuss new poems by Tommye Blount and Tarfia Faizullah; plus Mike Chasar on memorization and poems in popular culture. Discussion guide A deeper look into the January issue.	Subscribe to Poetry Sign up for a new subscription, givePoetry to a friend, or order a half-price student subscription. Get Poetry
THIS MONTH POEMS TOMMYE BLOUNT The Bug The Tongue DAVID BAKER Metastasis RAE ARMANTROUT The Difficulty The Ether Followers Taking Place DAVID SHAPIRO Song for Chaim In the Other Pocket Dust SAMUEL AMADON Poem That Wants to Be Called the West Side Highway A Partial View of the Triborough FADY JOUDAH Plethora Non-terminal H. L. HIX Better that any arc he sees confound than that it confirm his protestations. KATHY FAGAN Perpendicular Caro Nome Inscription TYLER MILLS First Thing JENNIFER BARBER Before Dark I Found a 1950s “Answer and Color-in Book” PHILIP LEVINE Inheritance Froggy Frenchman EILEEN MYLES London Exchange That Rat’s Death KEVIN CRAFT For the Climbers Figure of Aeolus PAISLEY REKDAL At the Fishhouses RAFAEL CAMPO The Chart MARK LEVINE Climax Change TARFIA FAIZULLAH 100 Bells JANE HIRSHFIELD Souvenir My Species The Problem DEBORAH LANDAU I Don’t Have a Pill for That LAS CHAVAS SPENCER REECE Las Chavas Edited by Spencer Reece and Richard Blanco PROSE MIKE CHASAR Orality, Literacy, and the Memorized Poem Hearing art's heartbeat. MARJORIE PERLOFF Reading Frank O’Hara’s “Lunch Poems” After Fifty Years Hilarity, heartbreak, and terrible traffic. ROWAN RICARDO PHILLIPS No to Aristotle Marvelous Things Overheard, by Ange Mlinko.