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

(“Come as you are...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

(“Lest I should know you...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

(“Tell me if this is all true...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

(“We both live in the same village...”) First appeared in Poetry
By Rabindranath Tagore

A Ballad of Baseball Burdens
By Franklin Pierce Adams

A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne

A Musical Instrument
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Negro Love Song
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
By John Dryden

A Song from the Italian from Limberham: or, the Kind Keeper
By John Dryden

A Song on the End of the World
By Czeslaw Milosz

Ah, Ah
By Joy Harjo

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

Alzuna
By Alfred Noyes

And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas

As
By Paul Muldoon

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Brain Litany: Or, Overlooking the Existential Factor
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Briefly It Enters, Briefly Speaks
By Jane Kenyon

Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
By Robert Burns

Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle
By Robert Browning

Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse
By Robert Browning

Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along
By Robert Browning

Comin thro' the Rye
By Robert Burns

from constant change figures
By Lyn Hejinian

Danny Deever
By Rudyard Kipling

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

Duncan Gray
By Robert Burns

Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs as Refrain
By Dana Gioia

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Excelsior
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula
By Andrew Hudgins

Forget not Yet the Tried Intent
By Thomas Wyatt

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling

God Bless America
By John Fuller

Grandfather
By Andrei Guruianu

How Are You Doing?
By Rick Snyder

Howl
By Allen Ginsberg

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

I Heard an Angel
By William Blake

I Would Like to Describe
By Zbigniew Herbert

Impromptus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

In the Cool of the Evening
By Andrew Hudgins

Infant Joy
By William Blake

Is it Possible
By Thomas Wyatt

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

King Bee Blues
By George Elliott Clarke

Letter For Emily Dickinson
By Annie Finch

Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden First appeared in Poetry
By Major Jackson

Lines on the Mermaid Tavern
By John Keats

Litany First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Lullaby of an Infant Chief
By Sir Walter Scott

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Metropolitan
By John Fuller

Military Mind First appeared in Poetry
By Charlie Smith

Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney

More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes

Mugging (I)
By Allen Ginsberg

My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My Lost Youth
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O Best of All Nights, Return and Return Again
By James Laughlin

Occupation 1943 First appeared in Poetry
By Saadi Youssef

Ode to the Midwest First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin Young

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

On Inhabiting an Orange First appeared in Poetry
By Josephine Miles

On the Road First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Our Fear
By Zbigniew Herbert

from Preludes for Memnon
By Conrad Aiken

Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling

Requests for Toy Piano First appeared in Poetry
By Tony Hoagland

Sad Boy's Sad Boy First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Bernstein

Shame First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Weiner

Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Sister Helen
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Sleep First appeared in Poetry
By Meghan O'Rourke

Song of Ecclesiastes
By George Elliott Clarke

Song of the Galley-Slaves
By Rudyard Kipling

Sparrow Trapped in the Airport First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

The Ballad of Othello Clemence
By George Elliott Clarke

The Barrel-Organ
By Alfred Noyes

The Bell Buoy
By Rudyard Kipling

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Divine Image
By William Blake

The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear

The Flat-Hunter’s Way
By Franklin Pierce Adams

The Lamb
By William Blake

The Long Trail
By Rudyard Kipling

The Long Voyage First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The Menstrual Hut
By Annie Finch

The Modern Pastoral Elegy First appeared in Poetry
By Conor O'Callaghan

The Mower’s Song
By Andrew Marvell

The Old Clock on the Stairs
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb

The Pasture
By Robert Frost

The Powwow at the End of the World
By Sherman Alexie

The Properly Scholarly Attitude
By Adelaide Crapsey

The Quangle Wangle's Hat
By Edward Lear

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Rain Poured Down
By Dan Gerber

The Ruined Maid
By Thomas Hardy

The School Where I Studied First appeared in Poetry
By Yehuda Amichai

The Secular Masque
By John Dryden

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Tragedy of Hats First appeared in Poetry
By Clarinda Harriss

The Tuft of Flowers
By Robert Frost

There Is A Garden In Her Face
By Thomas Campion

Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me
By Henry VIII, king of England

To a Greek Marble First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Aldington

To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams

To Mary
By William Cowper

To One Unknown First appeared in Poetry
By Helen Dudley

Today First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Triolet First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra McPherson

Trust First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Kinsolving

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Under the Dome
By Elise Paschen

Update on the Last Judgment First appeared in Poetry
By Ellen Hinsey

We Wear the Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Well Said, Davy
By John Fuller

What Became First appeared in Poetry
By Wesley McNair

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert

When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley

Wight First appeared in Poetry
By Stanley Plumly

You That I Loved First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

Your Hay it is Mow'd, and Your Corn is Reaped
By John Dryden