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 20 poems for Mother's Day
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
By Galway Kinnell
Better or Worse
By Heather McHugh
From the House of Yemanjá
By Audre Lorde
Granny
By James Whitcomb Riley
Not Here
By Jane Kenyon
On Mother’s Day
By Grace Paley
Pre-Text
By Marie Ponsot
Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski
The Great Blue Heron
By Carolyn Kizer
The Intruder
By Carolyn Kizer
The Little Book of Hand Shadows
By Deborah Digges
The Most Extraordinary Women in the World
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Tintype on the Pond, 1925
By J. Lorraine Brown
To a Child
By Sophie Jewett
To Any Reader
By Robert Louis Stevenson
To My Mother
By Wendell Berry
Waterwings
By Cathy Song
What I Learned From My Mother
By Julia Kasdorf
Your Clothes
By Judith Kroll
Copyright © 2009 Poetry Foundation Contact: mail@poetryfoundation.org Privacy Policy / Terms of Use
Poetryfoundation.org article RSS. Magazine RSS. Blog RSS.