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 16 poems for Kwanzaa

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
By Vachel Lindsay

An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan

Banneker
By Rita Dove

Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright

Coal
By Audre Lorde

Frederick Douglass
By Robert E. Hayden

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lift Every Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Soweto
By Edward Brathwaite

Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou

Sympathy
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Ballad of Nat Turner
By Robert E. Hayden

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Yet Do I Marvel
By Countee Cullen

Young Afrikans
By Gwendolyn Brooks