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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1932
By Frederick Morgan

The Common Women Poems, II. Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80
By Judy Grahn

The Common Women Poems, III. Nadine, resting on her neighbor’s stoop
By Judy Grahn

A Gallup Swill-Hole; Or, Cantina Blues
By Clarence Major

A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails
By Nikki Giovanni

A Home
By Sarah C. Woolsey

A Pict Song
By Rudyard Kipling

A Poem for the Cruel Majority
By Jerome Rothenberg

A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid
By Elizabeth Hands

A Song: “Men of England”
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
By Etheridge Knight

A Winter Night
By Robert Burns

Addiction
By A. F. Moritz

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

After working sixty hours again for what reason
By Bob Hicok

from America, America
By Saadi Youssef

An Arbor First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Gregerson

An Immigrant Woman
By Anne Winters

Anchorage
By Joy Harjo

Aubade
By Edith Sitwell

Auguries of Innocence
By William Blake

Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot

Box of Cigars First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile

Chant
By Tom Sleigh

Chicago First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Chicago
By Paul Engle

Childhood
By Margaret Walker

Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Cities
By H. D.

City Elegies
By Robert Pinsky

Contentment
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot

Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz

Days of 1908
By C. P. Cavafy

De Linin’ ub De Hymns
By Daniel Webster Davis

Doña Josefina Counsels Doña Concepción Before Entering Sears
By Maurice Kilwein Guevara

Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League
By Joseph Seamon Cotter

East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

Eclogue the Second: HASSAN; or, the Camel-driver.
By William Collins

England in 1819
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Essay on Psychiatrists
By Robert Pinsky

Eve of St. Agony or The Middleclass Was Sitting on Its Fat
By Kenneth Patchen

Everyone Has a House
By Kate Gale

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Foodcourt
By Tony Hoagland

For a' That and a' That
By Robert Burns

For Malcolm, A Year After
By Etheridge Knight

For Pharish Pinckney, Bindle-Stiff During the Depression
By Dudley Randall

Godolphin Horne, Who was Cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
By Hilaire Belloc

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Graceland
By Carl Sandburg

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
By Etheridge Knight

Hard-time blues
By William Waring Cuney

Harlem Shadows
By Claude McKay

Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer

Hidden Harvest
By Rodrigo Toscano

Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake

Holy Thursday: Is this a holy thing to see
By William Blake

Honey Dripper
By Clarence Major

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hypothetical Antipodes, Judgment
By Philip Jenks

I am the People, the Mob
By Carl Sandburg

I Speak to the Girl Some Dim Boy Loves
By Colleen J. McElroy

Ice Plant in Bloom
By W. S. Di Piero

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

In the Armpit of the Hill
By Clarence Major

In The Black Rock Tavern
By Judith Slater

Islanders
By Richard Emil Braun

Jack
By Carl Sandburg

January, 1795
By Mary Robinson

Joy in the Woods
By Claude McKay

Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major

Lies and Longing
By Linda Gregg

Like New
By Linda Gregerson

Lines from a Plutocratic Poetaster to a Ditch-digger
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe

from Lyrics of the Street
By Julia Ward Howe

Map First appeared in Poetry
By Atsuro Riley

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Money
By Reginald Gibbons

Money Won’t Change It (but time will take you on)
By Cornelius Eady

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Native Woman
By A. F. Moritz

New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
By Allen Ginsberg

Night Wash
By Anne Winters

No Buyers
By Thomas Hardy

No Classes!
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Northern Farmer: New Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Northern Farmer: Old Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
By James Edwin Campbell

Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie

On the Loss of Energy (and Other Things)
By June Jordan

One Girl of Many
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Opera Bouffe First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Gross

Parchment First appeared in Poetry
By Michelle Boisseau

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Politics of Mop and Sponge
By Kevin Stein

Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Poverty
By Jane Taylor

Railroad Face
By Ray Gonzalez

Rarefied First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Ready to Kill
By Carl Sandburg

Requests for Toy Piano First appeared in Poetry
By Tony Hoagland

Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Riot
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Royalty First appeared in Poetry
By Lianne Spidel

Sales First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study
By Thomas Hardy

from Saying Grace
By Kevin Young

School
By Jane Miller

Seventh Street
By Jean Toomer

Shadow Play First appeared in Poetry
By Ralph Angel

Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell

Small Kingdom
By Samuel Menashe

Song of the Galley-Slaves
By Rudyard Kipling

Sonnet Reversed
By Rupert Brooke

Street Music
By Elizabeth Akers Allen

The Beggars First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Widdemer

The Birth-day
By Mary Robinson

The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot

The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
By Cornelius Eady

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
By E. E. Cummings

The Chaste Stranger
By James Tate

The Children of the Poor First appeared in Poetry
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
By William Blake

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Don Paterson

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Deserted Village
By Oliver Goldsmith

The Dignity of Ushers First appeared in Poetry
By Al Maginnes

The Dirt-Eaters
By Elizabeth Alexander

The Dow Is Off
By Norman Williams

from The Emigrants: A Poem
By Charlotte Smith

The Emperor's Dream
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly

The Four Zoas
By William Blake

The Great Pax Whitie
By Nikki Giovanni

The Great Society
By Robert Bly

The Grey Monk
By William Blake

The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More

The Harbor First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson

The Lady and the Doctor
By Helen Leigh

The Laws of Motion
By Nikki Giovanni

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

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall

The Little Orphan
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Little Vagabond
By William Blake

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Men First appeared in Poetry
By Pablo Neruda

The Mill-Race
By Anne Winters

The Paradox
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Ruined Maid
By Thomas Hardy

The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Strayed Reveller
By Matthew Arnold

The Suburban Classes
By Stevie Smith

the trash men
By Charles Bukowski

The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Appleman

The Truth about Small Towns
By David Baker

The Two Boys
By Mary Lamb

The View from Here
By W. S. Di Piero

The Village: Book I
By George Crabbe

The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker

The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window
By Joy Harjo

from The Woman’s Labor. An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck
By Mary Collier

The Workforce
By James Tate

They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni

They Feed They Lion
By Philip Levine

They Will Say
By Carl Sandburg

Time Passes
By Cesare Pavese

To Elsie
By William Carlos Williams

To My Brother
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman

To the Negro Farmers of the United States
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Tourist
By Paul Engle

Town Eclogues: Monday; Roxana or the Drawing-Room
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Town Eclogues: Tuesday; St. James's Coffee-House
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Twang Chic: Sam Buckhannon Explores the Latest Fashion
By R. T. Smith

Two Aunts
By Thomas James

Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

Webs and Weeds
By Colleen J. McElroy

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What Work Is
By Philip Levine

Who Understands Me but Me
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Winter
By Anne Hunter

Wish for an Overcoat
By Alfred Islay Walden

Work Shy
By Alex Phillips

Worldly Place
By Matthew Arnold

Worm Either Way
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Written in London. September, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
By John Dryden

[Sonnet] You jerk you didn't call me up
By Bernadette Mayer