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 15 Poems that have a first line beginning with "v"

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V
(“Leave off your works, bride...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

Ventriloquy
Attention
By Rae Armantrout

Very sad,
Getting a Word In
By James Galvin

Very soon the Yankee teachers
Learning to Read
By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Virgin, sappy, gorgeous, the right-now
Sign
By George Starbuck

Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity!
The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church
By Robert Browning

Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens
The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

Venus Pudica stands, bent. Where her hand is
The Lady of the Castle
By John Hollander

Ventura because she was hungry and because
The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto RĂ­os

Vainly my heart had with thy sorceries striven:
To -
By Sarah Helen Whitman

Vnder the greene wood tree,
Under the Greenwood Tree
By William Shakespeare

Valentine, valentine you arrive
Valentine, Valentine First appeared in Poetry
By Landis Everson

Vandergast to his neighbors—
Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson

Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
By Walt Whitman

Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying,
Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge