American Poetry Review Jan/Feb 2026 Vol. 55, No. 1

• January/February 2026 issue
• Newspaper style format
• Contemporary poetry and literary prose
• In continuous publication since 1972!

Featuring:

Millicent Borges Accardi: The Art of the Possible: An interview with Dana Gioia and his translator, Rosangela Batista
Cynthia Arrieu-King: Chief Agreements • The Search For Something That Was Never Truly There • Reverse Heist • Rancor • Common Denominators
Hadara Bar-Nadav: Grief Is Like Grief
Matthew Dickman: Sleep • Star Wars • Watercolor • Room 705 • Heathered • Milk Glass
Monica Ferrell: At the Price Chopper • I Have Found It • I Appreciate Your Visibility • Is It All Right
Daisy Fried: Goose After Goose • Barrel of Monkeys
Amorak Huey: So Warm for November, in Bed with the Windows Open • Let Us First Bend Space and Time
Anna Journey: At Wally's Wine & Spirits, I Recall the Brothels of Pompeii
David Kirby: Everybody Got Better: What Jack Gilbert Means to Me
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer: My Perfect Scholar's Rock
Philip Metres: "I Learned to Love Me Later On": A Conversation with Therí Alyce Pickens
Tomás Q. Morín: Lake Limerick • For Sale: Tiny Home • Trick or Treat, 1982
Aimee Nezhukumatathil: Six Poems from Night Owl:  
Letter for Noctiluca • Night As a Verb • Saturnine • Adolescent Haibun • Almost Mercury • At My Birthday Party in Death Valley National Park
V. Penelope Pelizzon: The Hyenas
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes: Abolition Medicine: Liberatory Poetics of the Crip, Black Botanical
Elaine Sexton: Wait • Still Working
Peter Jay Shippy: From The Poetry Dopebook: Dictums, Apothegms, and Bloody Saws
Kimberly Ann Southwick: Sprouting a Horn
Ellen June Wright: Someone said, jasmine

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