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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Fabergé's Egg First appeared in Poetry
By Elizabeth Spires

Fable First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Sleigh

Fable for a War
By Thomas James Merton

Fable for Blackboard
By George Starbuck

Fable of the Ant and the Word First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Barnard

Fabrication of Ancestors First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Dugan

Facing into It
By Eleanor Wilner

Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Fact First appeared in Poetry
By Craig Dworkin

Factory
By Charles Simic

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Failures in Infinitives
By Bernadette Mayer

Faint Music
By Robert Hass

Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
By John Dryden

Fairy-Land
By Edgar Allan Poe

Faith First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

Faith
By David Baker

Faith
By Louis Untermeyer

Faith
By Frances Anne Kemble

Faith
By Judy Loest

Faith Healing
By Philip Larkin

Faith, Dogma, and Heresy
By Frank Stanford

faithless
By Quraysh Ali Lansana

Fake Tattoo
By Nikki Grimes

Fall River
By David Rivard

Fall, leaves, fall
By Emily Jane Brontë

fallen First appeared in Poetry
By jörg piringer

Falling
By James L. Dickey

Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
By Robert Lowell

Falling: The Code
By Li-Young Lee

Fallout
By David Bottoms

False Flowers
By Anne Stevenson

False Portrait of D.B. as
Niccolò Paganini

By Michael Palmer

Fame is a bee. (1788)
By Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle food (1702)
By Emily Dickinson

Family
By Josephine Miles

Family Album
By Diane Thiel

Family Reunion
By Louise Erdrich

Family Reunion
By Catherine Barnett

Family Reunion
By Maxine W. Kumin

Family Romance
By Larry Levis

Famous
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Fancy
By John Keats

Fancy and the Poet
By Susanna Moodie

Fanny
By Carolyn Kizer

from Fanny
By Fitz-Greene Halleck

Far Away, Far Away . . . First appeared in Poetry
By Franco Fortini

Far Company First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

far memory
By Lucille Clifton

Farewell Love and all thy Laws for ever
By Thomas Wyatt

Farewell to Bath
By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Farewell to Florida
By Wallace Stevens

Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
By John Ashbery

Fast Break
By Edward Hirsch

Fate
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate
By Carolyn Wells

Father
By Edgar Albert Guest

Father and Son
By Delmore Schwartz

Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde

Father, Child, Water
By Gary Dop

Father, Where Do the Wild Swans Go? First appeared in Poetry
By Ludwig Holstein

Father’s Old Blue Cardigan
By Anne Carson

Faults
By Sara Teasdale

Faustine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Favrile
By Mark Doty

Fawn
By Mary Barnard

Fæsulan Idyl
By Walter Savage Landor

Fear
By Dara Wier

Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
By William Shakespeare

Feather in Bas-Relief First appeared in Poetry
By Allen Edwin Butt

February First appeared in Poetry
By Bill Christophersen

February
By Margaret Atwood

February Evening in New York
By Denise Levertov

February Sky
By Bruce Smith

Feeding Our Ancient Ancestors First appeared in Poetry
By Pattiann Rogers

Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel
By Susan Mitchell

Feel Me
By May Swenson

Feeling Fucked Up
By Etheridge Knight

Felix Crow First appeared in Poetry
By Kay Ryan

Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Female Fashions for 1799
By Mary Robinson

Fence Repair
By David Lee

Fences
By Pat Mora

Fermanagh Cave
By Sherod Santos

Fern Hill
By Dylan Thomas

Feuilleton 5: The Buskers
By Christopher Middleton

Fever 103° First appeared in Poetry
By Sylvia Plath

Fib Time
By Gregory K. Pincus

Fib to a Knit Dweeb
By Mary Roberts

Fiduciary First appeared in Poetry
By Randall Mann

Fie, Pleasure, Fie!
By George Gascoigne

Field Burning: A Full Moon
By Robert Wrigley

Field Guide
By Cynthia Zarin

Field of Skulls
By Mary Karr

Fields of Learning
By Josephine Miles

Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Fulton

Fifteen
By Leslie Monsour

Fifteen Epitaphs I
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Fifth Grade Autobiography
By Rita Dove

Figures in the Carpets First appeared in Poetry
By David Schloss

Filling Station
By Elizabeth Bishop

Final Autumn
By Annie Finch

Final Section from "Eleven Eyes"
By Lyn Hejinian

Finale
By Pablo Neruda

Finding a Bible in an Abandoned Cabin
By Robert Wrigley

Finis
By Marjorie Pickthall

Finis Poloniae First appeared in Poetry
By Gottfried Benn

Finnish Opera
By Barbara Guest

fire
By Nick Flynn

Fire
By Francis Ponge

Fire and Ice
By Robert Frost

Fire Season
By James Galvin

Fire: The People First appeared in Poetry
By Alfred Corn

Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost

Firefly Under the Tongue First appeared in Poetry
By Coral Bracho

Fireweed
By C. Dale Young

First Coca-Cola
By Rodney Jones

First Farewell to J.G.
By Ephelia

First Fire
By Camille T. Dungy

First Glance
By Susan Hutton

First Grade
By Ron Koertge

First Grade Homework First appeared in Poetry
By D. Nurkse

First Job First appeared in Poetry
By Joseph Campana

First Kiss
By Kim Addonizio

First Love
By John Clare

First Movement
By Robert Fitzgerald

First Poem for You
By Kim Addonizio

First Song
By Miguel Hernández

First the Dog
By Zbigniew Herbert

First turn to me. . . .
By Bernadette Mayer

Firstborn First appeared in Poetry
By Kurt S. Olsson

Firstlings
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Fish
By Mary Ann Hoberman

Fish of the Flood First appeared in Poetry
By Emilia Stuart Lorimer

Fish or Like Fish First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Brouwer

Fishing First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Five Accounts of a Monogamous Man
By William Meredith

Five Indiscretions,
By Alberto Ríos

Five Miracles
By Thylias Moss

Five Poems From "Helen: A Revision" First appeared in Poetry
By Jack Spicer

Five Visions of Captain Cook
By Kenneth Slessor

Fixed Ideas
By Kenneth Slessor

Flame
By C. D. Wright

Flamingo Watching
By Kay Ryan

Flamingos Have Arrived in Ashtabula
By Andrew Hudgins

Flammonde
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Flaxman
By Margaret Fuller

Flesh of John Brown's Flesh: 2 December 1859
By Geoffrey Brock

Fleshly Answers
By Rachel Hadas

Flies on Shit
By Frank Stanford

Flight First appeared in Poetry
By B. H. Fairchild

Flight First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Bierds

Flight to Limbo First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Flirtation First appeared in Poetry
By Rita Dove

Floating Houses
By David Wojahn

Floating Island
By Dorothy Wordsworth

Floating Sweet Dumpling First appeared in Poetry
By Ho Xuan Huong

Floating Trees
By C. D. Wright

Flood
By Jorie Graham

Flood
By Dionisio D. Martinez

Flood: Years of Solitude
By Dionisio D. Martinez

Flounder
By Natasha Trethewey

Flow
By Jonathan Galassi

Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
By Galway Kinnell

Flowers by the Sea
By William Carlos Williams

Fluteplayers from Finmarken First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Rakosi

Flying Home
By Rachel Hadas

Fog
By Carl Sandburg

Fog
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Fog Horns First appeared in Poetry
By David Mason

Folk Tale
By Linda Pastan

Follow Thy Fair Sun
By Thomas Campion

Follow Your Saint
By Thomas Campion

Food
By Brenda Hillman

Fool's Errand
By James Galvin

Foolish Questions
By William Cole

For “Fiddle-de-de”
By John Hollander

For 1939
By Paul Engle

For a Girl I Know about to Be a Woman
By Miller Williams

For a Girl Killed at Sea First appeared in Poetry
By Calvin Thomas

For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton

For a' That and a' That
By Robert Burns

For Adam First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Hofmann

For Annie
By Edgar Allan Poe

For Billy
By Jack Spicer

For Christmas Day
By Charles Wesley

For Christmas Day: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
By Charles Wesley

For Edwin Wilson First appeared in Poetry
By A. R. Ammons

For Efessos
By Odysseus Alepoudelis Elytis

For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson

For Emily Wilson First appeared in Poetry
By A. R. Ammons

For Freckle-Faced Gerald
By Etheridge Knight

For Futures
By Josephine Miles

For Grant Wood First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Mackinnon

For Gustave Moreau
By Robin Blaser

For H., Dead in a Car at Thirty-eight
By Michael C. Blumenthal

For Instance First appeared in Poetry
By John Ciardi

For John Muir, a Century and More After His Time
By Janet Loxley Lewis

For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall First appeared in Poetry
By David Wagoner

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For Love First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Creeley

For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker

For Malcolm, A Year After
By Etheridge Knight

For Micha's Mother, Who Signs First appeared in Poetry
By Robert A. Fink

For My Contemporaries
By J. V. Cunningham

For My Daughter
By Weldon Kees

For My Daughter First appeared in Poetry
By Antonella Anedda

For My People First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Walker

For No Clear Reason
By Robert Creeley

For once, then Something
By Robert Frost

For That He Looked Not upon Her
By George Gascoigne

For the Animals
By Lawrence Raab

For the Anniversary of My Death
By W. S. Merwin

For the Consideration of Poets
By Haki Madhubuti

For the Ex-Wife on the Occasion of Her Birthday
By Thomas P. Lynch

For the Executive Director of the Fallen First appeared in Poetry
By Tom Sleigh

from For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut First appeared in Poetry
By Takashi Hiraide

For the Last Wolverine
By James L. Dickey

For the man with the erection lasting more than four hours First appeared in Poetry
By John Hodgen

For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen
By Hart Crane

For the Old Gnostics
By Robert Bly

For the Sleepwalkers First appeared in Poetry
By Edward Hirsch

For the South
By Neal Bowers

For the Tattooed Man
By Sharmila Voorakkara

For the young who want to
By Marge Piercy

For Una
By Robinson Jeffers

For Virginia Chavez
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

For Weeks After the Funeral
By Andrea Hollander Budy

For What Binds Us
By Jane Hirshfield

For You O Democracy
By Walt Whitman

Foraging for Wood on the Mountain
By Jack Gilbert

Forecast
By Josephine Miles

Foredoom
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Foreign Parts First appeared in Poetry
By James Schuyler

Forest Children
By Colette Inez

Forest Dwellers
By R. S. Thomas

Forever and a Day
By Samuel Menashe

Forever – is composed of Nows – (690)
By Emily Dickinson

Foreword First appeared in Poetry
By A. V. Christie

Forget not Yet the Tried Intent
By Thomas Wyatt

Forgetfulness First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Forgotten of the Foot
By Anne Stevenson

Fork
By Charles Simic

Formerly Communist Love Sonnet
By Connie Deanovich

Formulary First appeared in Poetry
By Sandra McPherson

Fortuna
By Thomas Carlyle

Fortune
By Charlie Smith

Forty Little Polliwogs
By Anonymous

Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton

Found Letter
By Joshua Weiner

Found Parable
By J. D. McClatchy

Fountains in the sea
By Marin Sorescu

Fountains of Aix
By May Swenson

Four and a Half Dancing Men
By Anne Stevenson

Four Appaloosas
By Stanley Plumly

Four Fibs
By A.E. Stallings

from Four Good Things
By James McMichael

Four Poems for Robin
By Gary Snyder

Four Portraits of Fire
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Four Postulates
By Michael Anania

Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals
By Susan Stewart

Four Sandwiches
By Martín Espada

Four Sonnets (1922)
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Four Themes on a Variation
By G. E. Murray

Four-Leaf Clover
By Ella Higginson

Fourteen Pages
By Albert Goldbarth

Fourth of July at Santa Ynez
By John Haines

Fourth Song
By Philip Sidney

Fowling Piece First appeared in Poetry
By Heidy Steidlmayer

Fox in the Landscape First appeared in Poetry
By Leslie Williams

Fox Sleep First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Merwin

Fra Lippo Lippi
By Robert Browning

Fragment
By Thomas Hardy

Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 4: As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 5: Whom should I choose for my Judge?
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 6: The Moon, how definite its orb!
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 7: When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 8: Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment 9: The Netherlands
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fragment of a Women from Kos
By Susan Mitchell

Fragments First appeared in Poetry
By Howard Altmann

Frame, An Epistle First appeared in Poetry
By Claudia Emerson

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Frère Jacques, Frère Antoine
By John Peck

Freddie
By Phil Bolsta

Frederick Douglass
By Robert E. Hayden

Free Verses First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Kirsch

Freedom, Revolt, and Love
By Frank Stanford

Freely Espousing
By James Schuyler

Freeway 280
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Frenzy
By Clarence Major

Fresh Air
By Kenneth Koch

Friday Snow
By Reginald Gibbons

Fried Beauty
By R. S. Gwynn

Friend of the Enemy
By Frank Stanford

Friendship After Love
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia
By Katherine Philips

from “Origins of Poetry” First appeared in Poetry
By Joel Lipman

From a Rooftop
By Timothy Steele

From Another Sky
By Pierre Reverdy

From Blossoms
By Li-Young Lee

From Her Notes
By Nomi Stone

From Lines to William Simson
By Robert Burns

From Mythology
By Zbigniew Herbert

From Our Correspondent in:
Theatre Square, Dresden
First appeared in Poetry
By Valerio Magrelli

From Space to Time
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

From the Artist's Sketchbook First appeared in Poetry
By Annette M'Baye

From the Dressing-Room
By Medbh McGuckian

From the Headland at Cumae
By John Peck

From the House of Yemanjá
By Audre Lorde

From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine
By Rosanna Warren

From the Plane
By Anne Marie Macari

From the Towers First appeared in Poetry
By Heather McHugh

From the Wave
By Thom Gunn

From This Height
By Tony Hoagland

From Violence to Peace
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Frost at Midnight
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fruit-gathering LV
By Rabindranath Tagore

Frying Trout While Drunk First appeared in Poetry
By Lynn Emanuel

Fuchsia
By Charlie Smith

Fuck the Astronauts
By James Tate

Fugue
By Peter Pereira

Full Consciousness
By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Full Fadom Fiue Thy Father Lies
By William Shakespeare

Full Flight First appeared in Poetry
By Bob Hicok

Full Measure
By Kay Ryan

Full Moon
By Elinor Wylie

Fundamentalism
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Fundamentals of Esperanto
By Srikanth Reddy

Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill

Funerals
By James Laughlin

Funny Strange First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Michael Hecht

Fusion Series # 2570
By Cecil Touchon