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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"'kitty'. sixteen,5'1",white,prostitute"
By E. E. Cummings

"I'm the pen your lover writes with"
By Bernadette Mayer

"Sometimes a human mammal is not to be seen"
By Bernadette Mayer

A Lame Begger
By John Donne

A Man Said to the Universe
By Stephen Crane

Abraham Lincoln
By Abraham Lincoln

Account
By Czeslaw Milosz

An Altogether Different Language
By Anne Porter

And like a Dying Lady, Lean and Pale
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Art thou pale for weariness
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Faith” is fine invention (202)
By Emily Dickinson

Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede

Blind Joy
By John Frederick Nims

But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light
By Richard Crashaw

Chapter Heading
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Days of Our Years
By John Frederick Nims

Defeated
By Sophie Jewett

Dirce
By Walter Savage Landor

Divine Epigrams: On the Baptized Ethiopian
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: On the Miracle of the Multiplied Loaves
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: Samson to his Delilah
By Richard Crashaw

Divine Epigrams: To our Lord, upon the Water Made Wine
By Richard Crashaw

Do you Remember me? or are you Proud?
By Walter Savage Landor

from Doctor Drink, #1
By J. V. Cunningham

Dust of Snow
By Robert Frost

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher
By Walter Savage Landor

Ebb
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Elms
By Louise Glück

Elusive Time
By James Laughlin

from Epigrams: A Journal, #20
By J. V. Cunningham

from Epigrams: A Journal, #30
By J. V. Cunningham

from Epigrams: A Journal, #8
By J. V. Cunningham

Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
By Ben Jonson

Faults
By Sara Teasdale

Fire and Ice
By Robert Frost

Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost

For Futures
By Josephine Miles

Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good Husbands Make Unhappy Wives
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Greek Architecture
By Herman Melville

How to get RICHES
By Benjamin Franklin

Humoresque
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

I Hear a River thro’ the Valley Wander
By Trumbull Stickney

In a Station of the Metro First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

In Defiance of Fortune
By Elizabeth I

Into Death Bravely
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Liberty
By Archibald MacLeish

Like an Animal
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Little Soul First appeared in Poetry
By Hadrian

Looking Forward
By Robert Louis Stevenson

My Autograph
By Susanna Moodie

Natural Law
By Babette Deutsch

Natural Selection First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Shapiro

Neo-Thomist Poem
By Ernest M. Hemingway

No Time First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

On Gut
By Ben Jonson

One Sung of thee who Left the Tale Untold
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Preparedness
By Edwin Markham

Resum
By Dorothy Parker

Rue First appeared in Poetry
By Samuel Menashe

Scree First appeared in Poetry
By Heidy Steidlmayer

Second Fig
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Self-Pity
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Separation First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Should the Wide World Roll Away
By Stephen Crane

Sir, Say no More
By Trumbull Stickney

Song in the Songless
By George Meredith

Soon, O Ianthe! Life is O'er
By Walter Savage Landor

Suicide's Note
By Langston Hughes

Tea-Strainer First appeared in Poetry
By Joyelle McSweeney

Tenderness and Rot First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

The Anti-Suffragist
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Bison
By Hilaire Belloc

The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández

The Fire
By Deborah Parédez

The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Frog
By Hilaire Belloc

The Horrid Voice of Science First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

The Little White Rose
By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
By Trumbull Stickney

The Poet's Life: From Martial's Epigrams First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Schmidgall

The Whale
By Hilaire Belloc

The Yak
By Hilaire Belloc

Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz

There was a little girl
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Three Poets First appeared in Poetry
By Robert West

To an Intra-mural Rat
By Marianne Moore

To Autumn
By Louise Glück

To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr

To John Donne
By Ben Jonson

To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with John Donne's Satires
By Ben Jonson

To Rosa
By Abraham Lincoln

To the Destroyers of Ballots
By Donald Revell

Upon Parson Beanes
By Robert Herrick

What I Know About Epistemology First appeared in Poetry
By John Surowiecki

When Life
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

With a Book
By Ambrose Bierce

Written in her French Psalter
By Elizabeth I

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

You know where you did despise
By Alexander Pope

You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed
By Walter Savage Landor