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 17 Poems about Islam
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.“I never seen such days as this”
By Sholeh Wolpé
Adam Means Earth*
By Samuel Menashe
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning
“The ribs and terrors in the whale”
By Herman Melville
Different Ways to Pray
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Don Juan: Canto the Eighth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
East with Ibn Battuta
By Thomas James Merton
Ex-Embassy
By Carol Muske-Dukes
In Jerusalem
By Mahmoud Darwish
Israfel
By Edgar Allan Poe
Malcolm X, February 1965
By E. Ethelbert Miller
Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone
Recollections of the Arabian Nights
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke
The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye
Turkish Bath
By Sidney Wade
Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith
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