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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1492
By Emma Lazarus

1851: A Message to Denmark Hill
By Richard Howard

Fragments: Mrs. Reuben Chandler writes to her husband during a cholera epidemic
By Anne Stevenson

VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.
By Stephen C. Foster

A Blessing
By James Wright

A Certain Village
By Theodore Weiss

A Channel Crossing
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport
By Sidney Wade

A Hairline Fracture
By Amy Clampitt

A Hot Day In Agrigento
By Molly Peacock

A Leave-Taking
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

A Lot
By Scott Cairns

from A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman

A Pastoral
By Agha Shahid Ali

A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Report to an Academy First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

A Second Train Song for Gary First appeared in Poetry
By Jack Spicer

A Sister on the Tracks
By Donald Hall

A Thousand Words
By Daryl Hine

A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
By Diane Wakoski

A Way of Being
By Barbara Guest

AAA Vacation Guide
By Ernest Hilbert

Advice to the Good Traveler
By Victor Segalen

Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell

Against Travel
By Charles Tomlinson

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alcohol
By Franz Wright

Alone with the Goddess
By Linda Gregg

American Sketches
By Donald Justice

An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert

An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi

An Interview First appeared in Poetry
By Oskar Pastior

Another Insane Devotion First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie

Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV
By Philip Sidney

At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
By Thomas Hardy

At the San Francisco Airport
By Yvor Winters

At the Station
By Herbert Morris

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Away to Canada
By Joshua McCarter Simpson

Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s
By Eleanor Wilner

Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin

Banjo Dog Variations
By Donald Justice

Bermudas
By Andrew Marvell

Beside the Broad Dordogne First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Feldman

Blackened Rings
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Blind Curse
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Blues for Dante Alighieri First appeared in Poetry
By Kim Addonizio

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Bus Trip
By Susan Mitchell

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

Carlos First appeared in Poetry
By Theodore Deppe

Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Cock First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Coda
By Basil Bunting

Come with Me First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Bly

Constantinople
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons

Crash
By Elizabeth Alexander

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman

Crossroads First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

Cruising 99
By Garrett Hongo

Crusoe in England
By Elizabeth Bishop

Day and Night in Virginia and Boston
By Anne Winters

Dejection
By David Baker

Descriptive Jottings of London
By William McGonagall

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

Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal

Driving West in 1970 First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Bly

Durban, South Africa—Some Notations of Value
By Chris Abani

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
By B. H. Fairchild

East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

East with Ibn Battuta
By Thomas James Merton

Eldorado
By Edgar Allan Poe

En la Calle San Sebastián
By Martín Espada

England Finally, Like My Mother Always Said We Would
By Alberto Ríos

Ephemera
By Robin Becker

from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Esmiss Esmoor
By Ben Belitt

Etching of the Plague Years First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Karr

Everyone Has a House
By Kate Gale

Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Excelsior
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Exegesis of the First Words Spoken (Ishmael)
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Explorers Cry Out Unheard
By Marie Ponsot

Eye on the Scarecrow
By Nathaniel Mackey

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson

Figures in the Carpets First appeared in Poetry
By David Schloss

Five Visions of Captain Cook
By Kenneth Slessor

Flight First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Bierds

Flight to Limbo First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Flying Home
By Rachel Hadas

For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson

For Pharish Pinckney, Bindle-Stiff During the Depression
By Dudley Randall

Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Four Postulates
By Michael Anania

Fox Sleep First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

Fundamentals of Esperanto
By Srikanth Reddy

Ghana Calls
By W. E. B. Du Bois

Glanmore Sonnets
By Seamus Heaney

God of Roads
By Yvor Winters

Going to Connecticut
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Grace
By John Logan

Gravelly Run First appeared in Poetry
By A. R. Ammons

Greenland’s Icy Mountains
By William McGonagall

Hanging in Egypt with Breyten Breytenbach
By Chris Abani

Hangzhou, Lake of the Poets
By Marie Ponsot

Hearing
By W. S. Merwin

Heaven
By Cathy Song

Hero
By Paul Engle

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
By Robert Browning

Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
By Robert Browning

Homecoming
By Jay Wright

Hotel Showers of the World
By Roddy Lumsden

How She Went to Ireland
By Thomas Hardy

I Travelled among Unknown Men
By William Wordsworth

If I Were Another
By Mahmoud Darwish

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle

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

In Cities, Be Alert
By Annie Finch

In Exile
By Emma Lazarus

In Kona, Thinking of the Elements First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 121
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 15
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In My Dreams
By Stevie Smith

In Spain
By Thomas Wyatt

In The Longhouse, Oneida Museum
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
By Louise Erdrich

Internal Migration: On Being on Tour
By Alan Dugan

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Ithaka
By C. P. Cavafy

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Jottings of New York: A Descriptive Poem
By William McGonagall

Journey to the Place of Ghosts
By Jay Wright

Julian and Maddalo
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Killary Harbor
By Peter Balakian

Kouign Amann First appeared in Poetry
By Ange Mlinko

Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz

Leaving Kansas City
By George Bradley

Left to Itself the Heart Could Almost Melt, Mend First appeared in Poetry
By Jill Osier

Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis

Limbo: Altered States
By Mary Karr

Lines
By John Ciardi

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798
By William Wordsworth

Lines to Mr. Hodgson Written on Board the Lisbon Packet
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Lines Written among the Euganean Hills
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Linnaeus in Lapland
By Lorine Niedecker

Lissadell First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Cope

Looking Around First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Looking For Each of Us
By Linda Gregg

Lost in the Forest
By Amy Gerstler

Magic First appeared in Poetry
By Louis Untermeyer

Mapping the Genome First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Symmons Roberts

Marco Polo at Finisterre First appeared in Poetry
By Matthew Brenneman

Mary Shelley in Brigantine First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Mine own John Poynz
By Thomas Wyatt

Minuscule Things
By William Matthews

Mosaic
By Linda Pastan

Most Sweet it is
By William Wordsworth

Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes

Mythmaking on the Merritt Parkway
By G. E. Murray

New Folk First appeared in Poetry
By Terrance Hayes

New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman

New Year
By Bei Dao

News
By Thomas Traherne

No One Goes to Paris in August
By Clarence Major

North
By Seamus Heaney

Northern Exposures First appeared in Poetry
By G. E. Murray

O Carib Isle! First appeared in Poetry
By Hart Crane

O Mistres Mine Where are you Roming?
By William Shakespeare

Ode to his Wife (Written in Patna, 1784)
By Warren Hastings

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

from Omeros
By Derek Walcott

On Antiphon Island
By Nathaniel Mackey

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
By John Keats

On Monsieur’s Departure
By Elizabeth I

On Quaking Bog
By Ben Belitt

On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples
By William Wordsworth

On the Road First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Once, Driving West of Billings, Montana
By Susan Mitchell

Osage County Museum, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
By Diane Glancy

Otranto
By Barbara Guest

Outside
By Mark Jarman

Over the Sea our Galleys Went
By Robert Browning

Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pamet Harbor First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Parting: 1940 First appeared in Poetry
By John Frederick Nims

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Peach First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Tonge

Pick Me Up
By William Jay Smith

Poem
By Thomas McGrath

Port-Au-Prince
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Pronouns
By Cole Swensen

Provo
By Mark Rudman

Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service

Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character
By Marin Sorescu

Quivira
By Ronald Johnson

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Recuerdo First appeared in Poetry
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Repose of Rivers
By Hart Crane

Resolution and Independence
By William Wordsworth

Rest before you sleep First appeared in Poetry
By Dionisio D. Martinez

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

Return to Rome
By Stanley Moss

River Road
By Herbert Morris

Road Report
By Kurt Brown

Roadblock
By Rachel Hadas

Runagate Runagate
By Robert E. Hayden

Running Away Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Russell Market First appeared in Poetry
By Maurya Simon

Safari, Rift Valley
By Roy Jacobstein

Saguaro
By Brenda Hillman

Sailing Home from Rapallo
By Robert Lowell

Sailing to America
By Gregory Djanikian

Sailing to Byzantium
By William Butler Yeats

Salvation First appeared in Poetry
By James Kimbrell

San Onofre, California
By Carolyn Forché

Sanctuary
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Santa Fe Trail
By Barbara Guest

Santo Domingo Feast Day
By Robin Becker

Scrabble with Matthews First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

Sea-Map
By Hilda Morley

Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
By Rudyard Kipling

Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Six Sailors
By Irving Feldman

Skipper Ireson’s Ride
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Skywriting
By Charles Tomlinson

Sleep Cycle
By Dean Young

Slow Dancing on the Highway:
the Trip North

By Elizabeth Hobbs

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

Solar
By Robin Becker

Solo R&B Vocal Underground First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

Some Boys are Born to Wander
By Walter McDonald

Somewhere to Paris
By Richard Blanco

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song of the Andoumboulou: 55
By Nathaniel Mackey

Song of the Open Road
By Walt Whitman

Sparrow Trapped in the Airport First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

Star
By W. S. Merwin

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost

from Stops Along the Western Bank of the Missouri River: Of the River Itself
By Michael Anania

Storming Toward a Precipice
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Stranger at the Ashwood Threshold
By Sherod Santos

The Armada
By Anne Winters

The Avenues First appeared in Poetry
By David St. John

The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

The Book of Urizen
By William Blake

The Boundary
By Bei Dao

The Bridge of Change
By John Logan

from The Bridge: Southern Cross
By Hart Crane

The Building of the Ship
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Calm
By John Donne

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Chariot
By Emily Dickinson

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

The Constant Voice
By John Koethe

The Convergence of the Twain
By Thomas Hardy

The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service

The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart

The Depot
By Anne Winters

The Doors First appeared in Poetry
By David St. John

The Double-Bed Dream Gallows
By Richard Brautigan

The Duffel Bag First appeared in Poetry
By David Harsent

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Errancy
By Jorie Graham

The Flashboat
By Jane Cooper

The Flower Path
By Arthur Sze

The French Girl
By Ann Lauterbach

The Friar's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Gardener 66
By Rabindranath Tagore

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Ghost Trio
By Linda Bierds

The Good Man in Hell
By Mark Jarman

The Grand Canyon
By Jean Garrigue

The Hero on His Way Home
By Lawrence Raab

The Hitchhikers First appeared in Poetry
By Diane Wakoski

The Homecoming
By Barbara Howes

The Hunting of the Snark
By Lewis Carroll

The Iliad
By Alexander Pope

The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell

The Jaunt
By Alfred Corn

The Journey
By Eavan Boland

The Journey
By Yvor Winters

The Journey
By James Wright

The Listeners
By Walter De La Mare

The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling

The Luggage
By Constance Urdang

The Magnets
By Ray Gonzalez

The Marchà aux Puces and the Jardin des Plantes
By Daryl Hine

The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

The Men
By B. H. Fairchild

The Men First appeared in Poetry
By Pablo Neruda

The Messenger
By Eleanor Wilner

The Moose
By Elizabeth Bishop

The Motorcyclists
By James Tate

The Mount
By Léonie Adams

The Naughty Boy
By John Keats

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

The Pilgrim
By Sophie Jewett

The Pilgrim
By John Bunyan

The Pilgrims
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Pilot in the Jungle
By John Ciardi

The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Princess: Sweet and Low
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Railway Train
By Emily Dickinson

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound

The Road and the End First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

The Rolling English Road
By G. K. Chesterton

The Sévres Road First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Donnelly

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott

The Seafarer
By Ezra Pound

The Seekonk Woods
By Galway Kinnell

The Shoes First appeared in Poetry
By Brent Pallas

The Simplon Pass
By William Wordsworth

The Simulacra First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Sleigh-Bells
By Susanna Moodie

The Snowmass Cycle First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

The Song of the Traveller
By Thomas James Merton

The Song of the Wreck
By Charles Dickens

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

The Thought of Something Else
By Wendell Berry

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Tourist From Syracuse
By Donald Justice

The Turtle Shrine Near Chittagong
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Vagrant’s Romance
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Vegetable Air
By Cathy Song

The Voyage Home First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Appleman

The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica
By Bernadette Mayer

The Way to the River
By W. S. Merwin

The Western Emigrant
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

The Whitsun Weddings
By Philip Larkin

The Witnesses
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Wreck of the Deutschland
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Wreck of the Hesperus
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni

Three Italian Pictures
By Mina Loy

Tiare Tahiti
By Rupert Brooke

To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad
By Edgar Allan Poe

To Go to Lvov
By Adam Zagajewski

To Helen
By Edgar Allan Poe

To my Honor'd Friend, Dr. Charleton
By John Dryden

To Myself
By Franz Wright

To the Returned Girls
By Franklin Pierce Adams

To the Virginian Voyage
By Michael Drayton

Tom Deadlight (1810)
By Herman Melville

Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer

Tourist
By Paul Engle

Tourists
By Lynn Emanuel

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Traveling dream
By Marge Piercy

Traveling through the Dark
By William E. Stafford

Trip to Delphi First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Two Songs from a Car First appeared in Poetry
By Ioanna Carlsen

Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Uneasy Rider
By Diane Wakoski

Unholy Sonnet 13
By Mark Jarman

Up-Hill
By Christina Rossetti

Vacating an Apartment
By Agha Shahid Ali

Vagabonds First appeared in Poetry
By Arthur Rimbaud

vegas
By Charles Bukowski

Venetian Candy First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Venetian Coda First appeared in Poetry
By John Koethe

Venice, Unaccompanied
By Monica Youn

Voyage
By Samuel Menashe

Voyages
By Hart Crane

Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg

Walking
By Thomas Traherne

Waring
By Robert Browning

Waving Goodbye First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Way-Station
By Archibald MacLeish

What the Birds Said
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Who Am I, Without Exile?
By Mahmoud Darwish

Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun

Why They Turned Back/Why They Went On
By Constance Urdang

Willowspout First appeared in Poetry
By R. T. Smith

XXVIII
By Clarence Major

You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

You, Andrew Marvell
By Archibald MacLeish

[Letter to Gary Bottone] First appeared in Poetry
By Jack Spicer