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 15 poems for Birth
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.Étude Réaliste
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Prayer for My Daughter
By William Butler Yeats
Anna Maria Is Coming, or Maybe Thomas Barton, or Max!
By Hilda Raz
Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass
Infant Joy
By William Blake
Infant Sorrow
By William Blake
Listening
By David Ignatow
Lullaby
By John Fuller
Mrs. Adam
By Kathleen Norris
Only Child
By D. Nurkse
Saturday’s Child
By Countee Cullen
Scallop Song
By Anne Waldman
Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
By N. Scott Momaday
To a Child
By Sophie Jewett
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