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 24 poems for Birthdays
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.1994
By Lucille Clifton
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman
By Miller Williams
Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass
Infant Joy
By William Blake
Infant Sorrow
By William Blake
July 4, 1974
By June Jordan
Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty
Listening
By David Ignatow
Maturity
By Philip Larkin
On Being Twenty-six
By Philip Larkin
On the Eve of a Birthday
By Timothy Steele
Passing Through
By Stanley Kunitz
Poem for My Twentieth Birthday
By Kenneth Koch
Poem in October
By Dylan Thomas
Self-Portrait at 38
By Jennifer Tonge
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719
By Jonathan Swift
Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727
By Jonathan Swift
The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov
To a Child
By Sophie Jewett
To My Father on His Birthday
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Twelfth Birthday
By Rachel Hadas
Yesterdays
By Robert Creeley
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