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 18 poems for Toasts & Celebrations
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
A Lay of the Links
By Arthur Conan Doyle
A Toast to the Men
By Edgar Albert Guest
Bede's Death Song
By The Venerable Bede
Choose
By Carl Sandburg
Found Letter
By Joshua Weiner
Four Poems for a Child Son
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
Immortal Sails
By Alfred Noyes
More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy
Odes
By Fernando Pessoa
Passtime with good company
By Henry VIII, king of England
Retirement
By Henry Timrod
Solitude
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Margins Where We Live
By Simon Joseph Ortiz
The Metamorphosed Gypsies
By Ben Jonson
To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr
Worldly Place
By Matthew Arnold
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