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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τεθνάκην δ’ ολίγω ’πιδεύης φαίνομ’ αλαία
By Allen Ginsberg

A Tapestry for Bayeux
By George Starbuck

After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass

American Solitude
By Grace Schulman

Analysis of Baseball
By May Swenson

Anthem First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Hahn

Better Late than Never
By Bin Ramke

Bus Stop
By Donald Justice

Cædmon's Hymn
By Cædmon

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

Countrywomen
By Katherine Mansfield

Days of 1994: Alexandrians
By Marilyn Hacker

Dejection
By David Baker

Discrimination
By Kenneth Rexroth

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Fifteen
By Leslie Monsour

For the Taking
By Linda Gregerson

Golden Age
By Timothy Steele

Harlem Sweeties
By Langston Hughes

Hendecasyllabics
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hendecasyllables on Catullus #33
By Bernadette Mayer

Hour First appeared in Poetry
By Reginald Gibbons

Lions Are Interesting First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

Motherhood
By May Swenson

My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Woman in a Housecoat
By Georgiana Cohen

Pangur Bán First appeared in Poetry
By Anonymous

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Peter
By Marianne Moore

Planting a Dogwood
By Roy Scheele

Poetry
By Marianne Moore

Proust’s Madeleine
By Kenneth Rexroth

Question
By May Swenson

Respublica
By Geoffrey Hill

Sapphics
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Sapphics Against Anger
By Timothy Steele

Scree First appeared in Poetry
By Heidy Steidlmayer

Some Words Inside of Words First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Wilbur

Sunday Skaters
By Mary Jo Salter

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Education of a Poet
By Leslie Monsour

The Extension of the Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Fincke

The Fish
By Marianne Moore

The Good Man in Hell
By Mark Jarman

The Long Voyage First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Wife Speaks
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

To the Blank Spaces First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

University First appeared in Poetry
By Karl Shapiro

Vitamins and Roughage
By Kenneth Rexroth

Young Girl Peeling Apples
By Mary Jo Salter