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 43 Poems about Judaism

First appeared in Poetry = First appeared in Poetry magazine.

Adam Means Earth*
By Samuel Menashe

A Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai

A little East of Jordan, (145)
By Emily Dickinson

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

Absalom and Achitophel
By John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel: The Second Part
By John Dryden

At the Threshold of the Book
By Edmond Jabès

Autumn Psalm
By Jacqueline Osherow

“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville

Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

From Her Notes
By Nomi Stone

Honorary Jew First appeared in Poetry
By John Repp

How to Do Things With Tears
By Allen Grossman

I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
By Yehuda Amichai

In Exile
By Emma Lazarus

In the Days of Awe
By Robin Becker

Mirror and Scarf
By Edmond Jabès

Mosaic
By Linda Pastan

My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

New Netherland, 1654
By Grace Schulman

Praise
By Stanley Moss

Rabbi Ben Ezra
By Robert Browning

Sabbath lie
By Yehuda Amichai

Saul
By Robert Browning

Schemhammphorasch
By Rose Terry Cooke

Snake
By Dannie Abse

Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke

Thamar and Amnon
By Federico García Lorca

The Alphabet First appeared in Poetry
By Karl Shapiro

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Author of Torah
By Alfred Corn

The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell

The Jew
By Isaac Rosenberg

The Jew and the Rooster Are One
By Gerald Stern

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The New Year
By Emma Lazarus

from The Next Clause First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

Woman’s Rights
By Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman

Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
By Robin Becker

You and I
By Stanley Moss

Zucchini Shofar First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Lindsay

["The lamps are burning in the synagogue..."]
By Charles Reznikoff