American Poetry Review Nov/Dec 2025 Vol. 54, No. 6

• November/December 2025 issue
• Newspaper style format
• Contemporary poetry and literary prose
• In continuous publication since 1972!

Featuring:

Aishvarya Arora: Close Reading Through the Body: A Conversation with Oliver Baez Bendorf
Derrick Austin: On Robert Hayden's Ekphrasis
Michael Bazzett: Every Onion a Perfect Minaret • The Man Kept Reaching • The Rememberer • I Would Like to Describe • Foundational Myth
Dan Beachy-Quick: Intimate Duration: On Forrest Gander's Mojave Ghost
Traci Brimhall: Dead of Night • Every Circle Is a Portal • Smoke Carries the Wish to the Heavens
Emet Ezell: Language the Letter, Letter the Language
Jennifer Franklin: She Must Not Be • O, Lucia —
Urszula Honek: Four poems, translated from the Polish by Dawid Mobolaji.
Berlin Alexanderplatz • Nightly Cleaning • Straight Ahead • Turning
I.S. Jones: Just the Four of Us • Hands of the Field • Juice or Milk
Rahul Mehta: Red
Sara Michas-Martin: When We Talk About Personhood
Sharon Olds: His Days • Having Been a Beaten Child • His Last Passover • Alphabet Disguise • After Divorce, in
the Years between Boyfriends
Gregory Orr: Late-Empire Confession
Ed Pavlić: Remember, Diamond Boy, How You Never Knew Why Singers Exist
Thomas Renjilian: Epithalamium with Surveillance Footage
James Richardson: Vectors 6.2: Just Saying • Undo
Justin Rigamonti: Nothing Sonnet • Creek Sonnet
Donna Spruijt-Metz: At the End of Our Time Together
Devon Walker-Figueroa: Desert Theater • Crown Shyness • My Invention • The Perch

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