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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There are 46 poems for Memorial Day

First appeared in Poetry = First appeared in Poetry magazine.

1866
By Henry Timrod

1914 II. Safety
By Rupert Brooke

1914 IV. The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë

Aside
By Karl Shapiro

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Break of Day in the Trenches First appeared in Poetry
By Isaac Rosenberg

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Clear-seeing
By Edgar Bowers

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Debridement
By Michael S. Harper

Eighth Air Force
By Randall Jarrell

Encounter First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas McGrath

Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa

For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton

I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris
By Louis Simpson

Last Century
By Wyatt Prunty

Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson

Lost First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memorial Day
By Gregory Orr

Military Mind First appeared in Poetry
By Charlie Smith

Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Navy Field
By William Meredith

Night of Battle First appeared in Poetry
By Yvor Winters

Nineteen-Fourteen: Peace First appeared in Poetry
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier First appeared in Poetry
By Rupert Brooke

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

On the Civil War on the East Coast of the United States of North America 1860-64
By Alan Dugan

Pacific Epitaphs
By Dudley Randall

Portrait from the Infantry
By Alan Dugan

Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)
By Herman Melville

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War
By James Doyle

The Conscientious Objector
By Karl Shapiro

The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska

The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska

The Man in the Dead Machine
By Donald Hall

The Performance First appeared in Poetry
By James L. Dickey

The War in the Air
By Howard Nemerov

The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith

Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro

Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
By Galway Kinnell

Veteran’s Hospital
By Ben Belitt