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 82 Poems about Sciences

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"Of": An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

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

A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning

A Toccata of Galuppi's
By Robert Browning

A Vision of a Wrangler, of a University, of Pedantry, and of Philosophy
By James Clerk Maxwell

Address: the Archaeans, One Cell Creatures First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

Afternoons First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Anania

An Equation for My Children First appeared in Poetry
By Wilmer Mills

At the California Institute of Technology
By Richard Brautigan

“Faith” is fine invention (202)
By Emily Dickinson

Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Cartoon Physics, part 1
By Nick Flynn

Cock First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Consolation First appeared in Poetry
By Wisława Szymborska

Corpus Medicum First appeared in Poetry
By C. Dale Young

Counselors
By Robert Fitzgerald

Darwin’s Bestiary
By Philip Appleman

Duke
By Bob Hicok

Embarrassment
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Evolution
By Jorie Graham

Evolution from the Fish
By Robert Bly

Faith First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

Flaxman
By Margaret Fuller

Flight First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Bierds

Geology
By Bob King

Half-Ourselves & Half-Not First appeared in Poetry
By Colin Cheney

Hand Defined
By Cole Swensen

How Evolution Came to Indiana
By Philip Appleman

I Grant You Ample Leave
By George Eliot

I Remember Galileo First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

In a Science-Illustrator’s Apartment
By Diane Ackerman

In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section
By James Clerk Maxwell

Itinerary
By James McMichael

John James Audobon
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Lectures to Women on Physical Science
By James Clerk Maxwell

Lines written under the conviction that it is not wise to read Mathematics in November after one’s fire is out
By James Clerk Maxwell

Love at Thirty-two Degrees First appeared in Poetry
By Katherine Larson

Lullabye for the Second Millennium First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

Lyell’s Hypothesis Again
By Kenneth Rexroth

Mapping the Genome First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Symmons Roberts

Modern Elfland
By G. K. Chesterton

Molecular Evolution
By James Clerk Maxwell

My God First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Rolston

Natural Selection First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Shapiro

Numbers First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Cornish

On a Raised Beach
By Hugh MacDiarmid

On the Subject of Doctors
By James Tate

Pater Noster
By Catherine Imbriglio

Physics
By Richard Kenney

Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich

Radio First appeared in Poetry
By Gottfried Benn

Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
By Alberto Ríos

Sonata
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Sonnet-To Science
By Edgar Allan Poe

Sublimation Point
By Jason Schneiderman

Summer
By Ronald Johnson

Surgeons must be very careful (156)
By Emily Dickinson

Testing on Steel and Glass
By Carl Rakosi

The Annihilation of Nothing First appeared in Poetry
By Thom Gunn

from The Botanic Garden, “The Economy of Vegetation”: Canto I
By Erasmus Darwin

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Flâneur
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

The Gross Clinic
By Carol Frost

The Horrid Voice of Science First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

The Ice Age
By Amy Gerstler

The Laboratory
By Robert Browning

The Land We Did Not Know
By Jean Garrigue

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

The Science Masquerade
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Secret of the Machines
By Rudyard Kipling

The Venus Hottentot
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Voyage Home First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Appleman

Their Bodies First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

Thinking of Darwin
By Herbert Morris

Three Six Five Zero First appeared in Poetry
By Conor O'Callaghan

To Madame Curie
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode
By James Clerk Maxwell

What the Stars Meant
By John Koethe

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman

Win-Win First appeared in Poetry
By Ange Mlinko

X-Ray First appeared in Poetry
By Dannie Abse