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Close-up of Layli Long Soldier's piece, <em>Obligations</em>. Diamond shapes with hoof outlines and the words "forms," "the terms," "men, "women," "the language," and "family member" are sewn together.

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Quilts

By Layli Long Soldier
Poem

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By Manny Loley
Translated By Manny Loley
 rain passed through

 just now
 rain

 chxósh

chxósh

 chxósh

 chxósh

 rain rained

now
 rainbow
 stretches

water   …

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poetry-magazineRoundtable on Indigenous Poetics

By Esther Belin, Kimberly Blaeser, Denise Low, Elise Paschen, Beth Piatote & Jake Skeets

The gathered collective thoughts are a restorative way to close this issue.

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Being

By Tanaya Winder
Wake up, greet the sun, and pray.
Burn cedar, sweet grass, sage—
sacred herbs to honor the lives we’ve been given,
for we have been gifted these ways since the beginning of time.
Remember, when you step into the arena of your life,
think about...
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Esther Belin and Tacey M. Atsitty on Monsters

The Poetry Magazine Podcast
This week, Esther Belin speaks with Diné poet Tacey M. Atsitty. Atsitty’s debut full-length collection, Rain Scald, was published in 2018, and Arthur Sze described the…

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T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

By Peter O’Leary

One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.

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"And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor – And this, and so much more? --"

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