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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Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
By Anonymous

Babies First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Fulton

Baby Ate a Microchip
By Neal Levin

Baby Villon
By Philip Levine

Baby Wrens’ Voices
By Thomas R. Smith

Babylon Revisited
By Amiri Baraka

Bacchanalia
By Matthew Arnold

Bach in the DC Subway
By David Lee Garrison

Backdrop addresses cowboy
By Margaret Atwood

Background Paper
By Jane Miller

Backside First appeared in Poetry
By Chika Sagawa

backstage drama
By Thulani Davis

Baghdad Song First appeared in Poetry
By Ibn Al-`Arabi

Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s
By Eleanor Wilner

Bait Goat First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Balboa, the Entertainer First appeared in Poetry
By Amiri Baraka

Baldwin
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Ballad of Birmingham
By Dudley Randall

Ballad of John Cable and Three Gentlemen
By W. S. Merwin

Ballad of the Salvation Army
By Kenneth Fearing

Ballade of Modest Confession
By Hilaire Belloc

Ballet
By Cesare Pavese

Ballet School
By Babette Deutsch

Balm in Gilead
By Grace Schulman

Banana Trees
By Joseph Stanton

Banjo Dog Variations
By Donald Justice

Banneker
By Rita Dove

Bar Code First appeared in Poetry
By Valerio Magrelli

Bar Napkin Sonnet #11
By Moira Egan

Bar Xanadu
By Lynda Hull

Barbara Allen
By Anonymous

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Barbershop Quartet, East Village Grille
By Sebastian Matthews

Barges on the Hudson First appeared in Poetry
By Babette Deutsch

Barking First appeared in Poetry
By n/a

Barking First appeared in Poetry
By Jim Harrison

Barley Field First appeared in Poetry
By Olav H. Hauge

Barter
By Sara Teasdale

Bartow Black
By Timothy Thomas Fortune

Baseball
By Gail Mazur

Baseball and Classicism
By Tom Clark

Baseball’s Sad Lexicon
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Bastille First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Martory

Bat
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Bat Cave
By Eleanor Wilner

Bath
By Amy Lowell

Bath
By Stuart Dybek

Bats First appeared in Poetry
By Amanda Jernigan

Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe

Battlefield First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Turcotte

Baudelaire
By Delmore Schwartz

Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face
By Jack Prelutsky

Be Still. The Hanging Gardens were a Dream
By Trumbull Stickney

Beach Glass
By Amy Clampitt

from Beachy Head
By Charlotte Smith

BEAM 30: The Garden
By Ronald Johnson

BEAMS 21,22,23, The Song of Orpheus
By Ronald Johnson

Bears at Raspberry Time
By Hayden Carruth

Beat! Beat! Drums!
By Walt Whitman

Beautiful Black Men
By Nikki Giovanni

Beautiful Dreamer Serenade
By Stephen C. Foster

Beautiful Signor
By Cyrus Cassells

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Beauty
By Tony Hoagland

Beauty and the Illiterate
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

Because I could not stop for Death – (479)
By Emily Dickinson

Because of this Modest Style First appeared in Poetry
By Ramón López Velarde

Becoming a Redwood
By Dana Gioia

Becune Point First appeared in Poetry
By Derek Walcott

Bed in Summer
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Bedtime Story First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Wright

Beech First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin McFadden

Beer
By George Arnold

Bees
By Jean Valentine

Bees and Morning Glories
By John Ciardi

Before a Statue of Achilles
By George Santayana

Before Christmas
By Landis Everson

Before Completion
By Arthur Sze

Before Dawn on Bluff Road
By August Kleinzahler

Before I got my eye put out – (336)
By Emily Dickinson

Before Parting
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Before Sextet
By Bernadette Mayer

Before the Birth of One of Her Children
By Anne Bradstreet

Before the Mirror
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Before the Rain First appeared in Poetry
By Lianne Spidel

Before You First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Rakosi

Beggar’s Song
By Gregory Orr

Beginning
By James Wright

Beginnings First appeared in Poetry
By Jeffrey Greene

Behind the Prytaneum First appeared in Poetry
By T. Zachary Cotler

Being in Love
By Chungmi Kim

Beirut Tank First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Sleigh

Bel Canto First appeared in Poetry
By Kenneth Koch

Belief
By Josephine Miles

Believe It
By John Logan

Belle Isle, 1949
By Philip Levine

Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle

Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom

Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski

Belongings
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Below the Coast
By John Koethe

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Bending the Bow
By Robert Duncan

Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City
By Jay Wright

Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson
By Jay Wright

Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Bent to the Earth
By Blas Manuel De Luna

Benzene
By Donald Revell

Beowulf (modern English translation)
By Anonymous

Beowulf (Old English version)
By Anonymous

Bereavement
By William Lisle Bowles

Berkeley in Time of Plague
By Jack Spicer

Bermudas
By Andrew Marvell

Bernal Hill First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

Beside the Broad Dordogne First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Feldman

Bess
By William E. Stafford

Bessie Dreaming Bear

By Marnie Walsh

Betrayal First appeared in Poetry
By William Hathaway

Better Days First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

Better Late than Never
By Bin Ramke

Better or Worse
By Heather McHugh

Between
By Marie Ponsot

Between Assasinations
By Alan Shapiro

Between Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night First appeared in Poetry
By Roddy Lumsden

Between Hovers
By Michael Longley

Between Neighbors
By David Wagoner

Between the Wars
By Robert Hass

Between Walls
By William Carlos Williams

Bewitched Playground
By David Rivard

Beyond Hammonton
By Stephen Dunn

Beyond Harm First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Olds

Beyond the Red River
By Thomas McGrath

Beyond the Stars First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Hanson Towne

Beyond Words
By Kevin Young

Bi-Focal
By William E. Stafford

Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.
By Sharon Olds

Big City
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Big City Speech First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

Bilingual/Bilingüe
By Rhina P. Espaillat

Billet-Doux First appeared in Poetry
By Chris Forhan

Billie Holiday
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Bindweed
By James McKean

Binsey Poplars
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Biographer First appeared in Poetry
By Samuel Menashe

Biology First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen O’connor

Birches
By Robert Frost

Bird at the Window First appeared in Poetry
By Sophie Cabot Black

Bird-Understander
By Craig Arnold

Birdcage Walk
By Thomas James Merton

Birdsong, face it, some male machine First appeared in Poetry
By Marianne Boruch

Birdwatchers of America
By Anthony Hecht

Birth Order
By Rae Armantrout

Birthday Blues
By Mark Rudman

Bitch First appeared in Poetry
By Carolyn Kizer

Bixby’s Landing
By Robinson Jeffers

Black Boys Play the Classics
By Toi Derricotte

Black Earth
By Marianne Moore

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Black Rook in Rainy Weather
By Sylvia Plath

Black Soap First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra McPherson

Black Stone on a White Stone First appeared in Poetry
By César Vallejo

Black Swan
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Black Valentine
By Tess Gallagher

Black Zodiac
By Charles Wright

Blackberrying
By Sylvia Plath

Blackbird Etude First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Blackened Rings
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Blandeur
By Kay Ryan

Blasting from Heaven
By Philip Levine

Bleeding
By May Swenson

Blessed Assurance
By Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne

Blind Curse
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Blind Joy
By John Frederick Nims

Blizzard
By William Carlos Williams

Blood
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Bloody Fate
By Miguel Hernández

Blowfly First appeared in Poetry
By Andrew Hudgins

Blowfly Grass
By Les Murray

Blowing the Fluff Away First appeared in Poetry
By Robyn Sarah

Blue First appeared in Poetry
By Robert L. Jones

Blue
By Carl Phillips

Blue
By Chris Abani

Blue Juniata First appeared in Poetry
By Malcolm Cowley

Blue Monday
By Diane Wakoski

Blue Moon
By W. S. Di Piero

Blue Ridge
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Blue Springs
By C. Dale Young

Blue-Crested Cry First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Reeser

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Blues for X
By George Elliott Clarke

Body First appeared in Poetry
By Alissa Leigh

Body and Soul First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Bryan

Boil
By Alicia Ostriker

Bolero First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Boleros 14
By Jay Wright

from Book of Hours First appeared in Poetry
By Kevin Young

Book of Isaiah
By Anne Carson

Booker T. and W.E.B.
By Dudley Randall

Border Crossings
By David Wojahn

Born Like the Pines
By James Ephriam McGirt

Boston Year
By Elizabeth Alexander

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Boundary Issues First appeared in Poetry
By John Ashbery

Bowl
By Valerie Martínez

Box of Cigars First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Boy and Egg
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Boy and Father
By Carl Sandburg

Boy Breaking Glass
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Brahma
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Braid
By Susan Stewart

Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

Bread
By W. S. Merwin

Bread Soup: An Old Icelandic Recipe
By Bill Holm

Break In
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Break of Day
By John Donne

Break of Day in the Trenches First appeared in Poetry
By Isaac Rosenberg

Break, Break, Break
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Breakage First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Oliver

Breakfast
By Mary Lamb

Breughel First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Collier

Brian Age Seven
By Mark Doty

Bricks and Straw
By Franklin Pierce Adams

Bridal Song
By George Chapman

Brief reflection on accuracy
By Miroslav Holub

Brief reflection on an old woman with a barrow
By Miroslav Holub

Brief reflection on killing the Christmas carp
By Miroslav Holub

Brief Thoughts on Cracks
By Miroslav Holub

Briefly It Enters, Briefly Speaks
By Jane Kenyon

from Briggflatts First appeared in Poetry
By Basil Bunting

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
By John Keats

Brock
By Paul Muldoon

Broken Promises
By David Kirby

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

Brother
By Mary Ann Hoberman

Brother Francis to Brother Leone First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

brothers
By Lucille Clifton

Brothers-American Drama
By James Weldon Johnson

Brought from Beyond
By Amy Clampitt

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Buckroe, After the Season, 1942
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Buffalo Bill 's
By E. E. Cummings

Buick
By Karl Shapiro

Bungee Jumping
By William H. Dickey

Burial Rites
By Philip Levine

Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler

Burlesque
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Burning
By Galway Kinnell

Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Burning Island
By Gary Snyder

Burning the Fields
By Linda Bierds

Burning the Old Year
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Burning Trash
By John Updike

Bus Stop
By Donald Justice

Bus Trip
By Susan Mitchell

Bushwick: Latex Flat
By D. Nurkse

Business
By A. F. Moritz

But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light
By Richard Crashaw

Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile

Butter First appeared in Poetry
By Connie Wanek

Butter
By Elizabeth Alexander

By Night when Others Soundly Slept
By Anne Bradstreet

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus