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 Thanksgiving
= First appeared in Poetry magazine. The Gift Outright
By Robert Frost
A Short History of the Shadow
By Charles Wright
A Thanksgiving to God, for his House
By Robert Herrick
Butter
By Elizabeth Alexander
Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
By John Berryman
Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson
My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Perhaps the World Ends Here
By Joy Harjo
Quaker Meeting, The Sixties
By Robin Becker
Signs of the Times
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
Stomackes
By Albert Goldbarth
Thanksgiving
By Edgar Albert Guest
Thanksgiving Day
By L. Maria Child
Thanksgiving Magic
By Rowena Bastin Bennett
The Garden of Proserpine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Pumpkin
By John Greenleaf Whittier
The Thanksgivings
By Harriet Maxwell Converse
To Autumn
By John Keats
Totem
By Eamon Grennan
When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley
Yam
By Bruce Guernsey
Zebra
By C. K. Williams
[Posterity, this me is Now—]
By Dan Beachy-Quick
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