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Category: Poetry

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“One by One” by Nina Kossman

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

One by one by one / our bones come to meet you— / it’s an open house day, / we meet-and-greet new guests
(Jewish poetry)

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  • Poetry

“Three turns of a Chassidic Microscope” by Yehoshua November

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

Do you see the world / as anything more than a translucent sheet lifted / by Divine breath?
(Jewish poetry)

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  • Poetry

Poems by Merve Çanak, translated from the Turkish by Donny Smith

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on February 4, 2021February 16, 2021

in the center of my heart they buried a limewood carving of a bird.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

May The Ghosts Forgive Us: A Review of Ray Gonzalez’s “Feel Puma”

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on February 2, 2021February 21, 2021

“Ghost poems of a haunted landscape, told in almost hypnotic lyricism, somehow bleed seamlessly into haunted writers and artists suffering in landscapes far from the West,” writes Sadie Hoagland.
(poetry reviews)

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  • Poetry

Two Poems by W. E. Pierce

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 16, 2021

we gently break their beacons from our ankles / caress the skin where now the signals stop.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

Poems by Larry Rogers

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 21, 2021

It had crushed her trailer / while she watched / Queen for a Day / on a TV crowned with rabbit ears.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“Gem Eyes” by Daniel Brenner

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 17, 2021

Wandering around some post-nuke safari park / With cauliflower growing out of my arm / Like a freak at night
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“What is the Sound of One Sky Falling?” by John Randolph Carter

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 21, 2021

Robber barons are laughing themselves silly as they devour your / neighbors. / Don’t worry. / It’s not you they are after.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

Poems by Heather Derr-Smith

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 21, 2021

little teeth of pinion, / gears of language / spinning in your mouth
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

Poems by Tony Tracy

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 17, 2021

How could / the hand’s reflexive twitch undo centuries of survival? / Something as simple as an approaching outlier of thunder / cause devastation to a thing come so far?
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“In the Ruins of a Tyrant’s Palace” by James McKee

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 16, 2021

Sunbeams drop and scatter / like shrapnel across bald pavingstones asizzle / in the dust of your passing.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“On South Division” by Katie Assarian

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 21, 2021

Every day their breath brushes back and forth / like wind erosion over the etched inscriptions / that say our veterans are our heroes.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“Untitled Summer’s Day” by Adam Gunther

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 21, 2021

Chicago, / I’ll stick around as long as you’ll take me or leave me.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

Two Poems by P. Szymo

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 21, 2021

what can somewhere provide beside a concrete babbling brook / with loose boulders.
(poetry)

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“Dispatch from a Pandemic: Chicago” by Natania Rosenfeld

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on December 31, 2020February 16, 2021

On our / walk the hound and I / noted something fecund.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

Four Poems from “Still Lives (Voices)” by Pedro Serrano, translated from the Spanish by Anna Crowe

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on December 29, 2020January 2, 2021

What are the whereabouts of this babble of tongues, / this suicide flight of words, / this hermit-crab that is my story? (poetry)

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  • Poetry

Two Poems by Pitambar Naik

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on December 15, 2020February 16, 2021

several layers of antagonism stare at us / amidst a squabbling paradox or cannibalism.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“The Day I Found Jimmy Hoffa” by Jim Gustafson

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on December 3, 2020February 16, 2021

He is short, Napoleonic little.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“Cracked Piano” by Margo Taft Stever

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on December 1, 2020November 29, 2020

“The great achievement of Cracked Piano is that its poems present psychological pictures of a person in loneliness,” writes reviewer John Zheng. (poetry reviews)

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  • Poetry

Two Poems by Marshall Mallicoat

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on November 17, 2020February 16, 2021

Out west, we get our sunlight second hand, / when the East has settled the business of the day.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

Two Poems from “La grazia di casa mia” by Julio Monteiro Martins, translated from the Italian by Donald Stang and Helen Wickes

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 29, 2020March 8, 2021

The last traces / of what I have lived, / of what I have loved, / are vanishing at the mercy of the wind.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“Arabic Lessons” by Rebecca Ruth Gould

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 23, 2020February 16, 2021

You did not talk politics, except / to tell me we were being watched.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“The Violence of the Ostrich” by Nicholas Karavatos

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 23, 2020February 16, 2021

Weird fantastic beings of a / Super-intelligence. Ruling a race of synthetic humans / and pitting them against mankind’s dream.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“I Abandon you Each Night” by Millicent Borges Accardi

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 11, 2020February 17, 2021

in soft squares, you try to neglect / your worries and shut down / the war-voices.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“When I tell my country” by Gabriel Vigh

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 5, 2020February 21, 2021

Each day the quick kick of the dream / empties another body / and the ghosts move through unkempt streets / named Lincoln and Delaware.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

Two Poems by A.I. Ramos

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 5, 2020February 16, 2021

they are the ones not allowed the roles except / maids and gardeners and gangsters and prisoners.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

Two Poems by Howard Winn

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 4, 2020February 16, 2021

at recess the innocent school / children play and gambol in / pure non-denominational play
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“A Piece of Mother Teresa” by Frank De Canio

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on October 4, 2020February 17, 2021

from their beacon hands / glow worldwide welcomes and a thousand smiles.
(poetry)

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  • Poetry

“Patio Postcard” by Hanzel Lacayo, translated from the Spanish by Diane Kendig

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on September 29, 2020February 16, 2021

I dreamed the sun, very low, / painting me a mustache of sweat and coal. (poetry)

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  • Poetry

Poems by Jeff Min

  • by Another Chicago Magazine
  • Posted on September 28, 2020February 17, 2021

I wondered aloud / if on those odds days / where I felt like a hunted squid / that what I was actually feeling / was Light Cerulean Blue.
(poetry)

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