IN THIS ISSUE: November 2009
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.
There are 60 Epistle poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.A Love Letter
By Russell Edson
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician
By Robert Browning
An Essay on Criticism: Part 1
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism: Part 2
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism: Part 3
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man: Epistle I
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man: Epistle II
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man: Epistle III
By Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope
Cleon
By Robert Browning
Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Dear Gonglya,
By Brenda Shaughnessy
Dear Gonglya,
By Brenda Shaughnessy
Dear Gonglya,
By Brenda Shaughnessy
Dear Mr. Fanelli,
By Charles Bernstein
Dedication
By Czeslaw Milosz
Eloisa to Abelard
By Alexander Pope
Epistle to Augusta
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Epistle to J. Lapraik
By Robert Burns
Epistle to Mrs. Tyler
By Christopher Smart
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle II: To a Lady on the Characters of Women
By Alexander Pope
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
By Alexander Pope
For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis
Found Letter
By Joshua Weiner
From Lines to William Simson
By Robert Burns
Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Imitations of Horace
By Alexander Pope
Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch
Letter from the Mountains
By James K. Baxter
Letter of Mathios Paskalis
By George Seferis
Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden
By Major Jackson
Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson
Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson
Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
By Anne Sexton
Loves
By Scott Cairns
Mine own John Poynz
By Thomas Wyatt
Posthumous
By Jean Nordhaus
Report to Crazy Horse
By William E. Stafford
Taking the Thought for the Dog
By Katharine Auchincloss Lorr
The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
By Hayden Carruth
The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students
By Galway Kinnell
The Last Attack. To Klaus
By Zbigniew Herbert
The Letter Scale
By Jacques Réda
The Orange
By Wendy Cope
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound
Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
By William Butler Yeats
To a Greek Marble
By Richard Aldington
To Fishermen
By Carol Frost
To Judgment: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
To Luck
By W. S. Merwin
To My Father's Business
By Kenneth Koch
To the Consolations of Philosophy
By W. S. Merwin
Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer
Who Steals My Good Name
By W. D. Snodgrass
Yesterday
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
[“Dear Lorca / These letters are to be”]
By Jack Spicer
[“Dear Robin / Enclosed you find”]
By Jack Spicer
[Letter to Gary Bottone]
By Jack Spicer
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