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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By Kenneth Fearing

“Que Sera Sera”
By A. Van Jordan

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

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

A Man in Blue
By James Schuyler

A New Story
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Pedestrian First appeared in Poetry
By Amit Majmudar

Advertisement
By Wisława Szymborska

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

All Souls
By Michael Collier

America
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

An Emeritus Addresses the School
By John Ciardi

Aphrodite Metropolis (1)
By Kenneth Fearing

Aphrodite Metropolis (2)
By Kenneth Fearing

At This Precise Moment of History
By Thomas James Merton

“The Secretary of Liquor”
By Mark Rudman

Backdrop addresses cowboy
By Margaret Atwood

backstage drama
By Thulani Davis

Baseball
By Gail Mazur

Beside the Broad Dordogne First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Feldman

Beyond Words
By Kevin Young

Billie Holiday
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Cadillac Moon
By Kevin Young

Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door First appeared in Poetry
By George Starbuck

Chant
By Tom Sleigh

Chatty Cathy Villanelle
By David Trinidad

Confidential
By Rae Armantrout

Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot

Cozy Apologia First appeared in Poetry
By Rita Dove

Day and Night in Virginia and Boston
By Anne Winters

Day Room
By Tom Sleigh

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

Early Cinema
By Elizabeth Alexander

Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe

Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary
By Kevin Young

Evening News II
By David Ferry

Fame is a bee. (1788)
By Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food (1702)
By Emily Dickinson

Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
By John Ashbery

Fiduciary First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

fire
By Nick Flynn

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Foodcourt
By Tony Hoagland

For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

Freely Espousing
By James Schuyler

God and the Fifties
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Granny
By James Whitcomb Riley

Having My Cards Read First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

Howl
By Allen Ginsberg

I Went into the Maverick Bar
By Gary Snyder

Isla
By Virgil Suárez

It Is a Living Coral
By William Carlos Williams

Judas: A Biography
By George Elliott Clarke

Kind of Blue First appeared in Poetry
By Lynn Powell

from Lessons From Television
By Susan Stewart

Let Me Count the Waves First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra Beasley

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Lost and Found
By Maxine Chernoff

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Map First appeared in Poetry
By Atsuro Riley

Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth
By Elizabeth Alexander

Narrative: Ali
By Elizabeth Alexander

Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Now and then First appeared in Poetry
By James Schuyler

Odd
By Dannie Abse

Ode on the Facelifting of the "statue" of Liberty
By Edward Dorn

Ode to the Midwest First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin Young

On Reading Crowds and Power First appeared in Poetry
By Geoffrey Hill

Parable in Praise of Violence
By Tony Barnstone

Private and Profane First appeared in Poetry
By Marie Ponsot

Red Parade
By David Trinidad

Retroduction to American History
By Allen Tate

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

Scary Movies First appeared in Poetry
By Kim Addonizio

Sean Penn Anti-Ode First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Shiver & You Have Weather
By Matthea Harvey

Silent Film First appeared in Poetry
By Kurt Brown

skinny-dippin’ in the gene pool
By Thulani Davis

Sleep First appeared in Poetry
By Meghan O'Rourke

Some Are Dead and Some Are Living
By Colleen J. McElroy

Some Assembly Required First appeared in Poetry
By George Bradley

Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone
By Bob Hicok

Statement with Rhymes First appeared in Poetry
By Weldon Kees

Street Boy First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

Sweet Machine
By Mark Doty

Terminator Too
By Tom Clark

The 167th Psalm of Elvis
By Tony Barnstone

The Bungalows
By John Ashbery

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

The Death of Allegory First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

The Dignity of Ushers First appeared in Poetry
By Al Maginnes

The Flash Reverses Time
By A. Van Jordan

The James Bond Movie
By May Swenson

The New World
By Amiri Baraka

The Price is Right: A Torture Wheel of Fortune
By Edward Dorn

The Red Cadillac First appeared in Poetry
By Reginald O'Hare Gibson

The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books
By Alice Notley

The Tragedy of Hats First appeared in Poetry
By Clarinda Harriss

Three Trees
By Mary Jo Bang

Time Problem
By Brenda Hillman

To James Fenton
By John Fuller

To Whistler, American First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

Tone Deficit First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin McFadden

Triolets in the Argolid First appeared in Poetry
By Rachel Hadas

Urban Renewal XVIII.
By Major Jackson

Verities First appeared in Poetry
By Kim Addonizio

Watching Television
By Robert Bly

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
By George Elliott Clarke

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What the Stars Meant
By John Koethe

What We Need
By Jo McDougall

Where Are The Stars Pristine
By Alice Fulton

X Minus X
By Kenneth Fearing

You and Me and Veronica Lake
By Colleen J. McElroy

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

[The bird’s-eye view]
By Ben Lerner

[The predictability of these rooms]
By Ben Lerner