IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009

Poetry Magazine

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.

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A Kind of Villanelle
By Joyce Sutphen

A Locked House
By W. D. Snodgrass

A Virginal
By Ezra Pound

Ae Fond Kiss
By Robert Burns

After One
By Tom Sleigh

All Reason and No Rhyme
By Joyce Sutphen

Amor Vincit Omnia
By Edgar Bowers

An Old Malediction
By Anthony Hecht

And Wilt thou Leave me Thus?
By Thomas Wyatt

Bitch First appeared in Poetry
By Carolyn Kizer

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Blue-Crested Cry First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Reeser

Coda
By Marilyn Hacker

Constancy
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Cuckoldom First appeared in Poetry
By BJ Ward

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
By Diane Wakoski

Depending on the Wind
By James Galvin

Dismantling the House First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

Don Juan: Canto the First
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Eleventh Song
By Philip Sidney

Errata
By Kevin Young

Ever After First appeared in Poetry
By Joyce Sutphen

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Faint Music
By Robert Hass

Feeling Fucked Up
By Etheridge Knight

Fish or Like Fish First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
By William Meredith

Food
By Brenda Hillman

For the Ex-Wife on the Occasion of Her Birthday
By Thomas P. Lynch

Green Groweth the Holly
By Henry VIII, king of England

Half Circle First appeared in Poetry
By Ralph Angel

Harp Song of the Dane Women
By Rudyard Kipling

Horse
By Louise Glück

Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t
By Richard Brautigan

I Want You to See
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Ianthe! You are Call’d to Cross the Sea
By Walter Savage Landor

I’ll Open the Window
By Anna Swir

Idea LXI
By Michael Drayton

In a U-Haul North of Damascus First appeared in Poetry
By David Bottoms

In the Middle of Dinner
By Chris Abani

In Winter
By Michael Ryan

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

from Lalla Rookh
By Thomas Moore

Last Words to Miriam
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Leave-Taking First appeared in Poetry
By Louise Bogan

Les Luths
By Frank O'Hara

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
By Anne Sexton

Liberty
By Thomas P. Lynch

Love Letters
By Lynn Crosbie

Love’s Interest First appeared in Poetry
By Ioanna Carlsen

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass

Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews

Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Love and New First appeared in Poetry
By Sara Teasdale

One Love Story, Eight Takes
By Brenda Shaughnessy

People Getting Divorced
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Preposition
By Sally Van Doren

Prothalamion
By Michael Ryan

Raking
By Tania Rochelle

Requiem for the First Half of Split
By Alice Notley

Revenge
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Rider
By Charlie Smith

River Road
By Stanley Kunitz

Rondeau Redoublé (and Scarcely Worth the Trouble, at That)
By Dorothy Parker

Separation First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Separation at Burnt Island First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

Since ye so Please
By Thomas Wyatt

So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Song in a Minor Key
By Dorothy Parker

Song to a Fair Young Lady Going out of Town in the Spring
By John Dryden

Sonnet
By Robert Hass

Sonnet XCVII: How like a Winter hath my Absence been
By William Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuguese 6: Go from me
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sorry
By Roddy Lumsden

Spring Letter First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

Talking among Ourselves
By Charlie Smith

Territories
By Gregory Djanikian

The Affair
By David Baker

The Afternoon Sun
By C. P. Cavafy

The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov

The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator
By Anne Sexton

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Man Splitting Wood in the Daybreak
By Galway Kinnell

The Man Who Married Magdalene
By Louis Simpson

from The Next Clause First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

The Self Banished
By Edmund Waller

The Story of the End of the Story
By James Galvin

The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
By Thomas Moore

The Voice
By Thomas Hardy

They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

To a Dead Lover First appeared in Poetry
By Louise Bogan

To a Highland Girl
By William Wordsworth

Tourists
By Lynn Emanuel

Two in August
By John Crowe Ransom

Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson

Venice, Unaccompanied
By Monica Youn

Wedding-Ring
By Denise Levertov

What should I Say
By Thomas Wyatt

When We Two Parted
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
By Robert Burns