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 55 poems for Father's Day
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.A Man
By Louis Untermeyer
A Man
By Louis Untermeyer
A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest
All My Pretty Ones
By Anne Sexton
Bewitched Playground
By David Rivard
Boy and Father
By Carl Sandburg
Brock
By Paul Muldoon
Carpentry
By Carl Dennis
Childhood Ideogram
By Larry Levis
Danse Russe
By William Carlos Williams
Digging
By Seamus Heaney
Dressing My Daughters
By Mark Jarman
Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson
Father
By Edgar Albert Guest
Father and Son
By Delmore Schwartz
Father, Where Do the Wild Swans Go?
By Ludwig Holstein
Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson
Fifteen
By Leslie Monsour
Getting Information Out of Pa
By Anonymous
Grandfather
By Michael S. Harper
He Thinks of His Children
By Hittan of Tayyi
In Dreams
By Kim Addonizio
Landscape, Dense with Trees
By Ellen Bryant Voigt
Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley
Lawyer and Child
By James Whitcomb Riley
Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty
Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden
By Major Jackson
Men at Forty
By Donald Justice
My Father
By Jessie B. Rittenhouse
O my pa-pa
By Bob Hicok
Only a Dad
By Edgar Albert Guest
Our Father
By Irving Feldman
Pa’s Soft Spot
By D. A. Ellsworth
Playing Dead
By Andrew Hudgins
Pop
By Elinor Maxwell
Pop
By Elinor Maxwell
Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science
By Alberto Ríos
Sonnet: On Receiving a Letter Informing Me of the Birth of a Son
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Supernatural Love
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg
The Bridge Builder
By Anonymous
The Cane-Bottom’d Chair
By William Makepeace Thackeray
The Father
By Ronald Ross
The Giant Water Bug
By Douglas Florian
The Gift
By Li-Young Lee
The Hospital Window
By James L. Dickey
The Little Boy Lost
By William Blake
The Same City
By Terrance Hayes
The Toys
By Coventry Patmore
This Can’t Be
By Bruce Smith
Those Winter Sundays
By Robert E. Hayden
To Alexander Graham
By W. S. Graham
To Her Father with Some Verses
By Anne Bradstreet
To My Father on His Birthday
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wine
By David Wojahn
Youth
By James Wright
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