Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2019

Poetry Foundation Magazine

by Don Share (Editor)

Genres: Poetry

94 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Bonisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boix’s poems worked best for me, but I didn’t get all the way into this issue. Will have to go back to it and try again...

[Jake Woods · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some poems spoke to me more than others, but that's with any issue. The last narrative - regarding miscarriage and it's place in the poeticsphere - was a good endnote.

[Erika Dreifus]

Sometime between this issue's arrival in my mailbox and today it has "gone missing," which is unfortunate, as I always prefer to read the physical copy (I'm grateful that the Poetry Foundation makes so much of the magazine's content available online, but somehow, I don't get the same immersive reading experience). This is an issue with a special section evidently gleaned from The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me, edited by Safia Elhillo and Fatimah Asghar, a forthcoming anthology featuring what Elhillo describes as "the Muslim community I didn’t know I was allowed to dream of. This is the Muslim community my child-self could have blossomed in—proof of the fact that there are as many ways to be Muslim as there are Muslims; that my way was one of those ways, was a way of being Muslim that counted." Also notable in this issue: a review of Leonard Cohen's final book.