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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There are 155 Poems about Stars, Planets, Heavens

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"Wreck" and "rise above" First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

(“Keep me fully glad...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

Gloria Mundi
By Walter De La Mare

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

XI Mon. January [1733] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon First appeared in Poetry
By Ron De Maris

A Lesson in Geography
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Letter to Yvor Winters
By Kenneth Rexroth

A Man Said to the Universe
By Stephen Crane

A Message from the Wanderer
By William E. Stafford

A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
By Frank O'Hara

Abt Vogler
By Robert Browning

Across the Border
By Sophie Jewett

Afternoons in May
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun
By Emily Jane Brontë

Ancestral
By Archibald MacLeish

Apollo First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Alexander

Ardors
By Carol Frost

ARK 99, Arches XXXIII
By Ronald Johnson

Astronomy Lesson
By Alan Shapiro

Astrophel and Stella XXXI
By Philip Sidney

At a Window First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autumn
By T. E. Hulme

Autumn Shade
By Edgar Bowers

Banneker
By Rita Dove

Beauty and the Illiterate
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright

Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson
By Jay Wright

Bowl
By Valerie Martínez

Break of Day
By John Donne

Brick
By Robert Creeley

Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats

Cædmon's Hymn
By Cædmon

Cadillac Moon
By Kevin Young

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Clear Night
By Charles Wright

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Cyclopean
By G. K. Chesterton

Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dream-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Eclipse with Object
By Ann Lauterbach

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Falling From Us, Vanishings
By Alan Williamson

Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost

First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald

First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert

Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gnomic Verses
By Robert Creeley

Halley’s Comet
By Stanley Kunitz

Harp Trees
By Robin Blaser

Heaven to Be
By Sharon Olds

Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hyperion
By John Keats

I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
By Hayden Carruth

I’m Over the Moon
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Imagined Room
By Barbara Guest

In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 72
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

In the Bay
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth
By William Wordsworth

Information
By David Ignatow

Inside My Head
By Robert Creeley

Israfel
By Edgar Allan Poe

Itinerary
By James McMichael

Lucifer in Starlight
By George Meredith

Lunar Baedeker
By Mina Loy

Man
By George Herbert

Manfred: Incantation
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Meditation under Stars
By George Meredith

Midsummer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Fitzgerald

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

My Star
By Robert Browning

Naming the Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Joyce Sutphen

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

Niagara
By Adelaide Crapsey

Night Said
By Franz Wright

Nights on Planet Earth First appeared in Poetry
By Campbell McGrath

North of Mist First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Videlock

October First appeared in Poetry
By Jacob Polley

Ode to Evening
By William Collins

On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan

On the Beach at Night
By Walt Whitman

On the Beach at Night Alone
By Walt Whitman

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Patience First appeared in Poetry
By Katherine Larson

Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich

Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima
By Lisa Jarnot

Poker Star
By Richard Brautigan

Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot

Robin Hood
By John Keats

Silent, Silent Night
By William Blake

Skywriting
By Charles Tomlinson

Snow on the Desert
By Agha Shahid Ali

Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Spider Crystal Ascension
By Charles Wright

Spirits of the Dead
By Edgar Allan Poe

Stars
By Marjorie Pickthall

Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Stone
By Charles Simic

Sympathy of Peoples
By Robert Fitzgerald

Ten Moons First appeared in Poetry
By Sasha Dugdale

The Annihilation of Nothing First appeared in Poetry
By Thom Gunn

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

from The Bridge: The Dance
By Hart Crane

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Eemis Stane
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Embankment
By T. E. Hulme

The End of Summer
By Rachel Hadas

The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
By Henry Vaughan

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Flâneur
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Interrupted Concert
By Federico García Lorca

The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Living Temple
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch

The Moment When Your Name is Pronounced
By Forrest Gander

The Moon and the Yew Tree
By Sylvia Plath

The Moon is distant from the Sea – (387)
By Emily Dickinson

The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Origin of Order First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Passing of the Wise Men First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Pieces That Fall To Earth First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Shadow Of Night
By George Chapman

The Sleeper
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Sound of the Sun
By George Bradley

The Spanish Hour
By J. D. McClatchy

The Star
By Ann Taylor

The Star
By Henry Vaughan

The Star-splitter
By Robert Frost

The Starlight Night
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Stars and the Moon
By Grace Schulman

The Stars Are First appeared in Poetry
By Samuel Menashe

The Sun First appeared in Poetry
By Dan Chiasson

from The Task, Book V: The Winter Morning Walk
By William Cowper

The World
By Henry Vaughan

There may be Chaos still around the World
By George Santayana

This blue belongs to no one.
By Jean-Michel Maulpoix

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To the Moon
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Too Much has Resisted Us
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Tor House
By Robinson Jeffers

Toward an Organic Philosophy
By Kenneth Rexroth

Truly Pathetic First appeared in Poetry
By Neal Bowers

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
By Jane Taylor

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Under Stars
By Tess Gallagher

Undone Song at Neap Tide First appeared in Poetry
By Kathryn Starbuck

What the Rattlesnake Said First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

What the Stars Meant
By John Koethe

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman

who knows if the moon's
By E. E. Cummings

Working Outside at Night
By Denis Johnson

[Les plantes et les planètes] / [Plants and planets] First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Marteau