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 65 Poems about Theater & Dance

First appeared in Poetry = First appeared in Poetry magazine.

 Take Me Out to the Go-Go
By Thomas Sayers Ellis

A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel
By John Fuller

A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan

A Private Matter
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Acting
By R. S. Thomas

as i fly over this time
By Thulani Davis

Ballet School
By Babette Deutsch

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Burlesque
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Caedmon
By Denise Levertov

Cameo Appearance
By Charles Simic

Casanova's Bossa Nova First appeared in Poetry
By Rich Murphy

Cold Turkey First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

Comus
By John Milton

Dance Piece
By Ben Belitt

Dancers Exercising
By Amy Clampitt

Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747
By Samuel Johnson

Every Day We Are Dancers First appeared in Poetry
By Mitch Roberson

Ex Machina
By Linda Gregerson

Eyes Like Leeks
By Linda Gregerson

Isis: Dorothy Eady, 1924
By Mark Doty

Joy
By Alan Shapiro

Lines
By Ina Coolbrith

Man Dancing with a Baby First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Stewart

Manfred: Incantation
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Merce of Egypt
By Charles Olson

Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger

Mobile-Buck
By James Edwin Campbell

My Last Dance
By Julia Ward Howe

No Images
By William Waring Cuney

On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton

Ovation
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Peripeteia
By Anthony Hecht

Poem, on a Nude, from the Ballet, to Debussy’s Prelude L’Après-Midi D’un Faune, after MallarmÃ’s L’Apres-Midi D’un Faune
By Dudley Randall

Poet Dances with Inanimate Object
By Cornelius Eady

Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ritual One
By David Ignatow

Santo Domingo Feast Day
By Robin Becker

Saturday Night
By Alicia Ostriker

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Shy Boy First appeared in Poetry
By Greg Sellers

Sonnet CX: Alas, 'tis True I have Gone here and there
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide
By William Shakespeare

The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner

The Chorus
By Rachel Hadas

The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race
By Vachel Lindsay

The Conqueror Worm
By Edgar Allan Poe

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

The Curse
By J. M. Synge

The Dance in Jinotega
By Grace Paley

The Dancer
By David Tucker

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Empty Dance Shoes
By Cornelius Eady

The Last Movie
By Rachel Hadas

The Machine
By Carol Muske-Dukes

The Reading Club
By Patricia Goedicke

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr

To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy Call'd the Double Dealer
By John Dryden

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey

Togetherness First appeared in Poetry
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
By Cornelius Eady