IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009
Poems by James Schuyler; a portfolio of new work by 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellows Eric Ekstrand, Chloë Honum, Joseph Spece, Jeffrey Schultz, and Malachi Black; translations of Gottfried Benn by Michael Hofmann; “The Poet Takes a Walk” featuring Peter Cole, Kay Ryan, W.S. Di Piero, and others.
There are 57 poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.“How awkward when playing with glue”
By Constance Levy
A Poison Tree
By William Blake
Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett
Attack of the squash people
By n/a
“Because he swings so neatly through the trees,”
By n/a
“If you’re fond of road-blocks, this one can’t be beat:”
By n/a
“When in your neighborhood you hear a neigh,”
By n/a
Caterpillars
By Brod Bagert
Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall
Colonel Fazackerley
By Charles Causley
Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country Barnyard
By Elizabeth J. Coatsworth
December Substitute
By Kenn Nesbitt
Drift-Raft
By Atsuro Riley
Duties of the Spirit
By Patricia Fargnoli
Fake Tattoo
By Nikki Grimes
Falling: The Code
By Li-Young Lee
For “Fiddle-de-de”
By John Hollander
Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
George Washington’s Birthday: Wondering
By Bobbi Katz
Halloween Party
By Kenn Nesbitt
I Left My Head
By Lilian Moore
If You Catch a Firefly
By Lilian Moore
Jill Came from the Fair
By Eleanor Farjeon
John James Audobon
By Stephen Vincent Benét
Leap Year Poem
By Anonymous
Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty
Liberty
By Archibald MacLeish
Light the Festive Candles
By Aileen Fisher
little tree
By E. E. Cummings
Lunchbox Love Note
By Kenn Nesbitt
Mine
By Lilian Moore
My Brother
By Marci Ridlon
My Brother, the Artist, at Seven
By Philip Levine
My Violin
By Bruce Lansky
Perfect
By Kenn Nesbitt
Playing Dead
By Andrew Hudgins
Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur
By Lewis Carroll
Revelations in the Key of K
By Mary Karr
Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman
Song of the Witches
By William Shakespeare
Tender-heartedness
By Harry Graham
The Air Base at Châteauroux, France
By Sherod Santos
The Bat
By n/a
The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear
The Grasshopper
By Conrad Aiken
The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes
The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll
The Lamb
By William Blake
The Sloth
By n/a
The Snowflake
By Walter De La Mare
The True-Blue American
By Delmore Schwartz
Then and Now
By Babette Deutsch
When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley
William I
By Eleanor Farjeon
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