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Poetry

This archive includes all poetry from our print archive from Litro #80 upwards. Earlier works can be viewed in the PDF versions of our back issues.

Please note that we only publish poetry in our print magazine. However, we do not accept unsolicited submissions. Please do not send your poetry to us—they will not be read.

Lament of Black Children

Lament of Black Children

A communal voice of resistance and remembrance. Black childhood under threat yet radiant in survival. Each stanza builds from mourning toward hope, blending lyric economy with social weight. ...

by Litro Magazine • October 19, 2025November 3, 2025

BREAKING BORDERS | POEMS

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, podcast, Poetry, Translations

BREAKING BORDERS | POEMS

Experience the evocative poetry of Natalia Toledo, presented in Zapotec, Spanish, and English. These poems explore themes of boundaries, migration, and sacred places. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, they offer ...

by Natalia Toledo • June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

Olympiad

Arts & Culture, Poetry

Olympiad

A sound like the blowing of a violent wind. The LORD is his name. ...

by stephen.james.moore.uk • April 21, 2024April 21, 2024

Praxis Axis (Walking the Beam)

Editor's Pick, Poetry

Praxis Axis (Walking the Beam)

Walking the beam, balances her shine, World’s highest esteem. Litro ...

by Litro Magazine • April 12, 2024April 12, 2024

TEXTING

TEXTING

“I know how men are afraid of women who OBSESS.” Ann Pedone’s poems tackle men, sex, longing, love, and everything in between. ...

by Ann Pedone • February 7, 2024February 7, 2024

An Augmented Reality Supermarket in California

Arts & Culture, Essays, Poetry

An Augmented Reality Supermarket in California

Arlene converses with Ginsberg’s ghost, exploring the Metaverse’s technological dreamscape. Will it be a utopia or pixelated dystopia? ...

by Arlene Tribbia • January 9, 2024January 9, 2024

THREE POEMS FROM ONLY YESTERDAY

Editor's Pick, Loneliness Issue, Poetry, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue

THREE POEMS FROM ONLY YESTERDAY

Three poems from Mutsuo Takahaski mutsuotakahashiMutsuo TAKAHASHI ...

by mutsuotakahashi • June 21, 2021June 21, 2021

TWO POEMS

Poetry, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue

TWO POEMS

Two poems from Japanese poet Akehiro Shirai akehiroshirai ...

by akehiroshirai • June 16, 2021June 16, 2021

SIX POEMS

Poetry, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue

SIX POEMS

Six poems by poet Tian Yuan. tianyuanTIAN ...

by tianyuan • June 9, 2021June 9, 2021

The Crab’s Back

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #142: Mexico, Poetry

The Crab’s Back

by Natalia Toledo • March 31, 2015April 24, 2019

The Street Seller’s Song

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #142: Mexico, Poetry

The Street Seller’s Song

by Samuel Noyola • March 31, 2015December 7, 2018

Every House Learnt How to Burn

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #142: Mexico, Poetry

Every House Learnt How to Burn

by Sara Uribe • March 31, 2015December 7, 2018

Crab

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #142: Mexico, Poetry

Crab

by Luis Miguel Aguilar • March 31, 2015December 7, 2018

I Was There

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #139: No Such Luck, Poetry

I Was There

by Dominic Stevenson • December 3, 2014December 7, 2018

Bonfire Night Beneath the Stars

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #139: No Such Luck, Poetry

Bonfire Night Beneath the Stars

by Dominic Stevenson • December 3, 2014December 7, 2018

Poetry Collection

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #126: Poland, Poetry

Poetry Collection

by Wioletta Grzegorzewska • June 10, 2013December 7, 2018

Fragments of Bone

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #120: Africa, Poetry

Fragments of Bone

by Inua Ellams • November 28, 2012December 7, 2018

Keith

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #119: Ghosts, Poetry

Keith

by Helen Mort • October 31, 2012December 7, 2018

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #118: China, Poetry

Autumnal Absences by Fan Zhongyan (989-1052)

by Litro • September 29, 2012December 7, 2018

Digital Subscriptions, Litro #118: China, Poetry

Breaking Off in May by Zhang Xian (990-1078)

by Litro • September 29, 2012December 7, 2018

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