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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A Barefoot Boy
By James Whitcomb Riley

A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti

A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti

A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon First appeared in Poetry
By Ron De Maris

A Pretty Woman
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

A Tale
By Louise Bogan

Air and Angels
By John Donne

America: A Prophecy
By William Blake

And the Grass Did Grow First appeared in Poetry
By Ralph Angel

As Children Know
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown

Canada Anemone First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

Cheer
By Stanley Plumly

Chicago First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Concord Hymn
By Jack Spicer

Death, in a bull's pelt
By Miguel Hernández

Difference
By Mark Doty

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Dream Land
By Christina Rossetti

Duties of the Spirit
By Patricia Fargnoli

Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room First appeared in Poetry
By Victoria Chang

Envy
By Mary Lamb

Epitaph for a Romantic Woman
By Louise Bogan

Family
By Marilyn Nelson

For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
By Fleda Brown

For Weeks After the Funeral
By Andrea Hollander Budy

Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti

Gospel
By Fleda Brown

Green Groweth the Holly
By Henry VIII, king of England

Green Tea
By Dale Ritterbusch

Hand Defined
By Cole Swensen

Holy Sonnets: Batter my heart, three-person'd God
By John Donne

Holy Thursday: 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean
By William Blake

I Call Her My Jungle Gardenia
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson

I Remember Galileo First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

I'm nobody! Who are you?
By Emily Dickinson

Implications of one plus one
By Marge Piercy

Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland

Infant Sorrow
By William Blake

Jerusalem: I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
By William Blake

Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty

Li Hua's Messenger First appeared in Poetry
By Peter Bethanis

Light Thickens First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Lions Are Interesting First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

Lost First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Love Like Salt
By Lisel Mueller

Love Recidivus First appeared in Poetry
By Lisa Barnett

Love's Nocturn
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Making Quiltwork
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Middle-Aged First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

Minor Poet First appeared in Poetry
By Bill Sweeney

Mock Orange
By Louise Glück

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
By Christina Rossetti

More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy

Mountain Dulcimer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Morgan

Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

My Star
By Robert Browning

Nine-Panel Yaak River Screen First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Obermann Once More
By Matthew Arnold

Old Toys Come Back First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Williamson

On the Screened Porch First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Palm Sunday Maple Syrup Poem
By Bernadette Mayer

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Permanent Press First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Rugby Chapel
By Matthew Arnold

Separation First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Silence First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Song: My silks and fine array
By William Blake

Stanzas for Music
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Friman

Tangerine
By Ruth L. Schwartz

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Bluet
By James Schuyler

The Book of Thel
By William Blake

The Book of Urizen
By William Blake

The County Jail
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Good First appeared in Poetry
By Michelle Boisseau

The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats First appeared in Poetry
By John Surowiecki

The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Illiterate
By Linda Gregerson

The Little Black Boy
By William Blake

The Little Vagabond
By William Blake

The Market-Place
By Walter De La Mare

The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The neighbor
By Marge Piercy

The Passing of the Wise Men First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

The Poetry Bus
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Portrait
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Singers First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Hearon

The Statesmen
By Ambrose Bierce

The Visit First appeared in Poetry
By Carole Bernstein

Then too there is this First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

To Judgment: An Assay First appeared in Poetry
By Jane Hirshfield

To Margaret W------
By Charles Lamb

To Rosemounde
By Geoffrey Chaucer

To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Turning Forty
By Kevin Griffith

Twilight: After Haying
By Jane Kenyon

Virtue
By George Herbert

What are big girls made of?
By Marge Piercy

When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley

Worth
By Marilyn Nelson

Yellow Dress First appeared in Poetry
By Amy Beeder

You were like the young fig tree
By Miguel Hernández

Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz