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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Either she was foul, or her attire was bad,
"Either she was foul, or her attire was bad"
By Ovid

Early to bed and early to rise:
‘Early to bed’
By Mary Mapes Dodge

Except when once we drew identical lots
A Secret Matter of Grave Importance
By Dara Wier

Everything was the apple and the glass of tea.
Adult
By Ray Gonzalez

Every story has its lean meat
After That
By Primus St. John

Even now this landscape is assembling.
All Hallows
By Louise Glück

Even iron can put forth,
Almond Blossom
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Elliot Ray Neiderland, home from college
Angels
By B. H. Fairchild

Elm branches radiate green heat,
As Children Know
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Enclosure, steam-heated; a trial casket.
At Eighty-three She Lives Alone
By Ruth Stone

Extreme exertion
Atlas First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Every day I peruse the box scores for hours
Baseball and Classicism
By Tom Clark

Each could picture probably
Bewitched Playground
By David Rivard

Every few minutes, he wants
Boy and Egg
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Each face in the street is a slice of bread
Bread
By W. S. Merwin

Everyone comes back here to die
Burial Rites
By Philip Levine

eviction people arrive to haunt me
Cabin
By Anne Waldman

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Every day a wilderness—no
Dusting First appeared in Poetry
By Rita Dove

Earth took of earth, earth with woe,
Earth Upon Earth
By Anonymous

Earth rais'd up her head
Earth's Answer
By William Blake

Even on Easter Sunday
Easter in Pittsburgh First appeared in Poetry
By James Laughlin

Echo that loved hid within a wood
Echo
By Daryl Hine

Effort for distraction grew
Effort for Distraction
By Josephine Miles

Eleven o’clock, and the curtain falls.
End of the Comedy First appeared in Poetry
By Louis Untermeyer

Emily,
from Epipsychidion
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Evans? Yes, many a time
Evans
By R. S. Thomas

Evening! as slow thy placid shades descend,
Evening
By William Lisle Bowles

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Ever let the Fancy roam,
Fancy
By John Keats

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
For the Anniversary of My Death
By W. S. Merwin

Equisetum, horsetail, railway weed
Forgotten of the Foot
By Anne Stevenson

Each house smells of strangers.
Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton

Even in fortunate times,
Golden Age
By Timothy Steele

E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre
H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts) [Part I]
By Ezra Pound

Every Wednesday when I went to the shared office
Hammer
By Dean Young

Each morning we begin again. My wife
Homeland of the Foreign Tongue
By Scott Cairns

Each escape
Houdini First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Easy to say
Hour on Hour
By Mary Kinzie

Even your odds and ends.
I Love Your Crazy Bones
By Barton Sutter

Everyone in me is a bird.
In Celebration of My Uterus
By Anne Sexton

every wall
In My Mother’s House
By Gloria g. Murray

Even before I saw the chambered nautilus
Incandescent War Poem Sonnet
By Bernadette Mayer

Each morning the man rises from bed because the invisible
It’s Like This First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dobyns

Every city in America is approached
Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye
By Gerald Stern

Escape me?
Life in a Love
By Robert Browning

Each morning in the little white cabin
Lions Are Interesting First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

Every morning the maple leaves.
Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out
By Richard Siken

Eyeing the grass for mushrooms, you will find
Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson

Esteville begins to burn;
On Summer
By George Moses Horton

Easter was the old North
Paschal First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Pinsky

Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear
Poem about My Rights
By June Jordan

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Poppies in October
By Sylvia Plath

Each day we go about our business,
Praise Song for the Day
By Elizabeth Alexander

Everything’s been said
Rabbits and Fire
By Alberto Ríos

Every night, we couldn’t sleep.
Recitative First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Even the flags seemed frozen
Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
By Linda Pastan

Ease is the pray’r of him who, in a whaleboat
Sapphics: At the Mohawk-Castle, Canada. To Lieutenant Montgomery
By Thomas Morris

Everything contains some
Sharks' Teeth First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Eight hours by bus, and night
Shawl
By Albert Goldbarth

Ethics without faith, excuse me,
Song of Social Despair
By Marvin Bell

Every town with black Catholics has a St. Peter Claver’s.
St. Peter Claver
By Toi Derricotte

Each morning he’d anoint the room’s four corners
Stonehenge
By Albert Goldbarth

Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand Station and Customs,
Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens
By Robert Duncan

Everyone at Lake Kearney had a nickname:
Sway
By Louis Simpson

Each instant comes with a price, the blue-edged bill
The Cradle Logic of Autumn
By Jay Wright

Everything stops.
The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart

Even the old woman likes to lie in the sun
The Drunk Old Woman
By Cesare Pavese

Egg-white house, old
The House Gift First appeared in Poetry
By Joanie V. Mackowski

Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die.
The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Extravagant sweep
The Last Scene
By Alan Shapiro

Eastern Sea, 100 fathoms,
The Lobster
By Carl Rakosi

Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each morning I made my way
The Ship Pounding
By Donald Hall

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still
from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper

Each new moment—cruising along the salt pond,
The White Faces
By Charlie Smith

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!
To a Skylark
By William Wordsworth

Exert thy voice, sweet harbinger of spring!
To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Everything is half here,
Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms First appeared in Poetry
By Francesca Abbate

Even as the sunne with purple-colourd face,
Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare

Every seaworthy vessel a woman
Vermeer
By Debora Greger

Everyone's spending Christmas Eve adrift
Where Are The Stars Pristine
By Alice Fulton

evening the priest
[Two poems]
By Frank Stanford