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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Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
By Robert Burns

from Cabbage Gardens
By Susan Howe

Cabezón First appeared in Poetry
By Amy Beeder

Cabin
By Anne Waldman

Cacoethes Scribendi
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cadillac Moon
By Kevin Young

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Caedmon
By Denise Levertov

Caelica 22
By Fulke Greville

Caelica IV
By Fulke Greville

Caelica XXIX
By Fulke Greville

Cage
By Josephine Miles

Caged Bird
By Maya Angelou

Caliban upon Setebos
By Robert Browning

Call as You Will First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Boss

Call It Music First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Levine

Call Me Pier
By Susan Firer

callas lover First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

Calm was the even, and clear was the sky
By John Dryden

Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
By Delmore Schwartz

Cameo Appearance
By Charles Simic

Camouflage First appeared in Poetry
By Henry Carlile

Camouflaging the Chimera
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Camping Out
By Edwin Gladding Burrows

Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz

Canada
By Billy Collins

Canada Anemone First appeared in Poetry
By Fleda Brown

Canary
By Rita Dove

Cancer and Complaint at Midsummer
By C. Dale Young

Candles First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Cane
By Cleopatra Mathis

Canicule Macaronique
By John Fuller

Canned Food Drive First appeared in Poetry
By Kathleen Lynch

Cantico del Sole
By Ezra Pound

Canto III First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

Cape Cod
By George Santayana

Captain Carpenter
By John Crowe Ransom

Captain Haddock vs. the PTA First appeared in Poetry
By Amy Beeder

Captain, Captive First appeared in Poetry
By Samuel Menashe

Captains in Captivity First appeared in Poetry
By Seth Abramson

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Car Showroom
By Jonathan Holden

Cardinal Ideograms
By May Swenson

Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price
By William Byrd

Careless Perfection First appeared in Poetry
By Daniel Halpern

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Carl Hamblin
By Edgar Lee Masters

Carlos First appeared in Poetry
By Theodore Deppe

Carmel Highlands First appeared in Poetry
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Carmel Point
By Robinson Jeffers

Carnivorous
By Lucie Brock-Broido

Carolina Journal First appeared in Poetry
By Nicole Pekarske

Carpentry
By Carl Dennis

Carrie Leigh’s Hugh Hefner Haikus
By Lynn Crosbie

Carrion Comfort
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Carrying a Ladder First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Cartoon Physics, part 1
By Nick Flynn

Casanova's Bossa Nova First appeared in Poetry
By Rich Murphy

Cascando
By Samuel Beckett

Casey at the Bat
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Casino
By Joyce Sutphen

Cassandra
By H. D.

Cassandra
By Louise Bogan

Cast Off First appeared in Poetry
By Belle Randall

Casualty
By Seamus Heaney

Cat, Failing First appeared in Poetry
By Robin Robertson

Catacomb
By Charles Tomlinson

Catalogue Raisonné of My Refrigerator Door First appeared in Poetry
By George Starbuck

Catch
By Langston Hughes

Catch a Little Rhyme
By Eve Merriam

Catching the Moles
By Judith Kitchen

Caterpillars
By Brod Bagert

Cathedral
By Terence Winch

Cautionary Tales
By Mark Vinz

Cave Dwellers
By A. Poulin

Celebration for June 24 First appeared in Poetry
By Thomas McGrath

Census
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Chain of Women
By Annie Finch

Chamber Thicket First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Olds

Champs d’Honneur
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Chance Meeting
By Susan Browne

Change
By Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Change First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Videlock

Changing What We Mean
By Eloise Klein Healy

Changing Woman
By Annie Finch

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Chanson Philosophique First appeared in Poetry
By Timothy Steele

Chant:
By Chris Abani

from Chanting at the Crystal Sea
By Susan Howe

Chanukah Lights Tonight
By Steven Schneider

Chaplinesque
By Hart Crane

Chapter Heading
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Character of the Happy Warrior
By William Wordsworth

Charles Augustus Fortescue
By Hilaire Belloc

Charles Graner Is Not America
By Geoffrey Brock

Charles Meryon
By Christopher Middleton

Charles Sumner
By Charlotte L. Forten Grimké

Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
By Cornelius Eady

Charms for Love First appeared in Poetry
By Anonymous

Charon’s Cosmology
By Charles Simic

Chartres
By Edith Wharton

Chatty Cathy Villanelle
By David Trinidad

Chaucer
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Che Fece ... Il Gran Refiuto
By C. P. Cavafy

Checklist
By Stephen Dunn

Cheer
By Stanley Plumly

Chekhov’s “The Student” (April, 1894)
By Brian Culhane

Cherry-Ripe
By Thomas Campion

Cherrylog Road
By James L. Dickey

Chester
By John Koethe

Chez Jane First appeared in Poetry
By Frank O'Hara

Chiapas First appeared in Poetry
By Gary Soto

Chicago First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Chicago
By Paul Engle

Chicago and December First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

Chicago’s Congo
By Frank Marshall Davis

Chicken Pig First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Child of a Day
By Walter Savage Landor

Child of an Idumean Night
By Jerome Rothenberg

Child on the Marsh
By Andrew Hudgins

Childhood
By Margaret Walker

Childhood Ideogram
By Larry Levis

Childhood’s Retreat
By Robert Duncan

Children in a Field
By Angela Shaw

Children in Slavery
By Eliza Lee Follen

Chilli Catharsis
By John Kinsella

Chimera
By Carol Frost

Chinese New Year First appeared in Poetry
By Lynda Hull

Chinese Whispers
By John Ashbery

Chinoisserie
By Lynn Emanuel

Chivalric
By Bin Ramke

from Chloe and Myra
By Sophia Burrell

Choice
By J. V. Cunningham

Choices
By Tess Gallagher

Chokecherries
By Melissa Kwasny

Chomei at Toyama First appeared in Poetry
By Basil Bunting

Choose
By Carl Sandburg

Choosing A Profession
By Mary Lamb

Chord First appeared in Poetry
By Stuart Dybek

Chord First appeared in Poetry
By Atsuro Riley

Choriambics
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Chorus Sacerdotum
By Fulke Greville

Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan

Christabel
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christ’s Nativity
By Henry Vaughan

Christian Virtues
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Christmas Away from Home
By Jane Kenyon

Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
By Toi Derricotte

Christmas Night
By Conrad Hilberry

Christmas Tree
By John Frederick Nims

Christmas Tree Lots First appeared in Poetry
By Chris Green

Chrysalis
By Arthur Sze

Cicadas at the End of Summer
By Martin Walls

Cinderblock
By Chase Twichell

Cinema Verité
By Bin Ramke

Circle of Lorca
By Frank Stanford

Citation First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

Cities
By H. D.

Citrus Freeze
By Forrest Gander

City Elegies
By Robert Pinsky

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Clair de Lune
By Anthony Hecht

Clan Meeting: Births and Nations: A Blood Song
By Michael S. Harper

Claribel
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Clarinet
By Terrance Hayes

Clary First appeared in Poetry
By Atsuro Riley

Clean
By Jeff Vande Zande

Cleaning a Fish
By Dave Smith

Cleaning an Attic First appeared in Poetry
By Brent Pallas

Cleanliness
By Charles Lamb

Clear Night
By Charles Wright

Clear-seeing
By Edgar Bowers

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Cliff Swallows
-Missouri Breaks

By Debra Nystrom

Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
By Kenneth Rexroth

Clinical Thermometer Set with Moonstone
By Alice Notley

Clorinda and Damon
By Andrew Marvell

Close Path
By Mary Kinzie

Closing Hours
By Ann Lauterbach

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Clothespins
By Stuart Dybek

Clotilde
By Guillaume Apollinaire

Cloud No Bigger than a Man’s Hand First appeared in Poetry
By Dick Allen

Clouds
By Denise Levertov

Clouds Gathering
By Charles Simic

Cloudy Day
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Coal
By Audre Lorde

Coal Deliveryman First appeared in Poetry
By Ramón Cote Baraibar

Cock First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

Cocktails with Orpheus First appeared in Poetry
By Terrance Hayes

Coda
By Basil Bunting

Coda
By Marilyn Hacker

Coexistence: A Lost and Almost Found Poem First appeared in Poetry
By Peter Cole

Coins
By Richard Newman

Cold Blooded Creatures
By Elinor Wylie

Cold Calls: War Music, Continued First appeared in Poetry
By Christopher Logue

Cold Spring
By Lawrence Raab

Cold Turkey First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

from Colin Clout
By John Skelton

Collision
By Miroslav Holub

Colonoscopy Sonnet First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Colophon
By Dean Young

Color
By Christina Rossetti

Color in American History: An Essay First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Disch

Colors passing through us
By Marge Piercy

Columbus Park
By Anne Pierson Wiese

Come in from the Rain First appeared in Poetry
By Tim Dlugos

Come into Animal Presence First appeared in Poetry
By Denise Levertov

Come slowly – Eden! (205)
By Emily Dickinson

Come Up from the Fields Father
By Walt Whitman

Come with Me First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Bly

Comin thro' the Rye
By Robert Burns

Coming and Going First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Martory

Coming to Jakarta
By Peter Dale Scott

Coming to This
By Mark Strand

Coming Your Way First appeared in Poetry
By J. Allyn Rosser

Commemoration
By Samuel Menashe

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Common Janthina
By Tatiana Ziglar

Communications
By Neal Bowers

Communion
By Catherine Imbriglio

Communion First appeared in Poetry
By Fiona Sampson

Complaint of the Absence of Her Love Being Upon the Sea
By Henry Howard, earl of Surrey

Complaint: To the Muse
By Philip Whalen

Complete Destruction
By William Carlos Williams

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Conceiving Himself
By Jack Gilbert

Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites
By Charles Simic

Conches on Christmas First appeared in Poetry
By Mike Chasar

Conclusion First appeared in Poetry
By John Frederick Nims

Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Concord Hymn
By Jack Spicer

Confession First appeared in Poetry
By Reginald Gibbons

Confession
By Norman Dubie

Confession in a Booth at the Hollow Log Lounge
By R. T. Smith

Confession of a Stolen Kiss
By Charles d'Orleans

Confessions
By Robert Browning

Confidential
By Rae Armantrout

Confluence
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Congratulating Wedge
By Alice Notley

Connubial First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

Conrad Siever
By Edgar Lee Masters

Conscription Camp First appeared in Poetry
By Karl Shapiro

Consecration First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Stewart

Consequences
By William Meredith

Considering the Snail
By Thom Gunn

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

Consolation
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Consolation First appeared in Poetry
By Wisława Szymborska

Constancy
By John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Constancy to an Ideal Object
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

from constant change figures
By Lyn Hejinian

Constantinople
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15)
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Constructive
By Heather McHugh

Containment First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Contempt First appeared in Poetry
By Elfriede Jelinek

Contentment
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

continental divide
By D.A. Powell

Contrary Theses (II)
By Wallace Stevens

Conversation
By Ai

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

Conversion Comedy First appeared in Poetry
By Ange Mlinko

Cool Pastoral on Bloor Street
By John Reibetanz

Cool Tombs
By Carl Sandburg

Coquette et Froide
By Julia Ward Howe

Cor Cordium
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

CORIKOS First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Aldington

Corinna's Going a-Maying
By Robert Herrick

Corned Beef and Cabbage
By George Bilgere

Corsons Inlet
By A. R. Ammons

Cortège
By Carl Phillips

corydon & alexis First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

corydon & alexis, redux First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

Cosmogony First appeared in Poetry
By Caki Wilkinson

Cottonmouth Country
By Louise Glück

Counsel to Unreason First appeared in Poetry
By Léonie Adams

Counselors
By Robert Fitzgerald

Count Down First appeared in Poetry
By Robin Morgan

Count Gismond—Aix in Provence
By Robert Browning

Counting the Mad
By Donald Justice

Country Burial
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Country Love Song First appeared in Poetry
By Melanie Almeder

Country Marriage
By Carol Frost

Country of the Proud
By Léonie Adams

Country Summer
By Léonie Adams

Countrywomen
By Katherine Mansfield

County Fair
By Mary Karr

Courtesy
By David Ferry

courthouse steps First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

Courtship
By Mark Strand

Cousin Nancy
By T. S. Eliot

Covenant
By Alan Shapiro

Cover Versions
By Roddy Lumsden

Covers
By Rae Armantrout

Cowgirl
By R. T. Smith

Coy Mistress
By Annie Finch

Coyote, with Mange First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Wunderlich

Cozy Apologia First appeared in Poetry
By Rita Dove

Crane and Hawk
By John Kinsella

Crash
By Elizabeth Alexander

Crawfordsville Confidential
By G. E. Murray

Creative Writing First appeared in Poetry
By Miroslav Holub

Creatures
By Billy Collins

Credo
By Robert Creeley

Credo
By Matthew Rohrer

Credo
By Robinson Jeffers

Creel
By Robert Wrigley

Crepuscule with Muriel
By Marilyn Hacker

Crest
By Frank Stanford

Cricket First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Hofmann

Crocodile Tears First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Crossing 16
By Rabindranath Tagore

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
By Walt Whitman

crossing into canaan First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

Crossing the Atlantic
By Anne Sexton

Crossing the Bar
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Crossing the Days First appeared in Poetry
By James Scruton

Crossing the Square
By Grace Schulman

Crossroads First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

Crown
By Kay Ryan

Crows in a Strong Wind
By Cornelius Eady

cruel, cruel summer First appeared in Poetry
By D.A. Powell

Cruelty and Love / Love on the Farm
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Cruising 99
By Garrett Hongo

Crusoe in England
By Elizabeth Bishop

Crying in Front of a Man
By Kate Gale

Cuba, 1962
By Ai

Cuckoldom First appeared in Poetry
By BJ Ward

Cui Bono
By Thomas Carlyle

Cullen in the Afterlife First appeared in Poetry
By P. K. Page

Cultural Stakes; or, How To Learn English as a Second Language
By Kevin A. González

Cups: 1
By Robin Blaser

Cups: 8
By Robin Blaser

Curriculum Vitae
By Samuel Menashe

Cut Out For It First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Cutting Hair
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Cy Twombly, "Beyond (A System for Passing)" First appeared in Poetry
By H. L. Hix

Cy Twombly, "Night Watch" First appeared in Poetry
By H. L. Hix

Cyclopean
By G. K. Chesterton

Cymothoa Exigua First appeared in Poetry
By Roger Reeves

Cynthia's Revels: Queen and huntress, chaste and fair
By Ben Jonson

Cyriack, Whose Grandsire
By John Milton