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 76 poems for Independence Day

First appeared in Poetry = First appeared in Poetry magazine.

A Rocket in My Pocket
By Anonymous

Abraham Lincoln
By Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
By Vachel Lindsay

After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
By Robert Bly

America
By Claude McKay

America
By Allen Ginsberg

from An Explanation of America: A Love of Death
By Robert Pinsky

Banneker
By Rita Dove

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright

Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Canada Anemone First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

Ellis Island
By Peter Balakian

Fire Season
By James Galvin

I Am Waiting
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I Hear America Singing
By Walt Whitman

In the Elementary School Choir First appeared in Poetry
By Gregory Djanikian

July 4, 1974
By June Jordan

Learning to Love America
By Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Lines Written Near San Francisco
By Louis Simpson

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

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Of History and Hope
By Miller Williams

Of Lincoln
By Cynthia Zarin

Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

from Powers of Thirteen: 29 [An Old Song]
By John Hollander

The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Lowering
By May Swenson

The Topography of History
By Thomas McGrath

The True-Blue American
By Delmore Schwartz

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman

Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove