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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Ma Rainey
By Sterling A. Brown

Mac Flecknoe
By John Dryden

Machines First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Donaghy

Mad Song
By William Blake

Madam’s Past History
By Langston Hughes

Madam, withouten many Words
By Thomas Wyatt

Made Shine
By Josephine Miles

Made to Measure First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Edgar

Made-for-TV Movie, in Which a Couple Throws a Copy of Frederic Jameson’s Postmodernism; or, The Logic of Late Capitalism off a Bridge and into a River
By T.R. Hummer

Madmen First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Madness in a Chalice First appeared in Poetry
By Neil Fischer

Madrigal in Time of War
By John Frederick Nims

Madrigal: "Like the Idalian queen"
By William Drummond of Hawthornden

Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Magic First appeared in Poetry
By Louis Untermeyer

Magnificat First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

Magnificat in Little
By Léonie Adams

Magnum Mysterium
By Lucie Brock-Broido

Mahayana
By Philip Whalen

Makeup First appeared in Poetry
By Dora Malech

Makeup on Empty Space
By Anne Waldman

Making Money: Drought Year in Minkler, California
By Gary Soto

Makris Is Fallen First appeared in Poetry
By Sarah Lindsay

Malcolm X, February 1965
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Malocchio
By W. S. Di Piero

Mama First appeared in Poetry
By Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Man
By George Herbert

Man Dancing with a Baby First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Stewart

Man in Space
By Billy Collins

Man in the Street or Hand Over Mouth
By Heather McHugh

Man of War First appeared in Poetry
By Carol Frost

Man with a Black Dog
By Richard Emil Braun

Manifest
By Reginald Shepherd

Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale
By John Skelton

Mansion Beach
By Elizabeth Spires

Mantinades First appeared in Poetry
By Mantinadologoi

Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout

Many Colored Squares
By Philip Whalen

Many Scientists Convert to Islam
By Nomi Stone

Map First appeared in Poetry
By Atsuro Riley

Maple Syrup
By Donald Hall

Mapping the Genome First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Symmons Roberts

Marathon
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Marble-Sized Song First appeared in Poetry
By Albert Goldbarth

March: An Ode
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Marching
By Jim Harrison

Marching Men
By Marjorie Pickthall

Marco Polo at Finisterre First appeared in Poetry
By Matthew Brenneman

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Margaret’s Speech
By Norman Dubie

Marginalia
By Deborah Warren

Mariana
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Mariana in the South
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Market Forecast First appeared in Poetry
By Alexa Selph

Market Women’s Cries
By Jonathan Swift

Marriage First appeared in Poetry
By Lawrence Raab

Marriage
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Marriage Morning
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Marry Me
By Veronica Patterson

Marrying the Hangman
By Margaret Atwood

Marshlands
By Emily Pauline Johnson

martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935
By Tyehimba Jess

Marvel First appeared in Poetry
By David Biespiel

Mary Morison
By Robert Burns

Mary Shelley in Brigantine First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Mary's Lamb
By Sarah Josepha Hale

Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Mason Jars by the Window
By Alberto Ríos

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Matanza to Welcome Spring
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Maternal
By Gail Mazur

Maternity
By Robert W. Service

Mathematics
By Jane Hirshfield

Matinee
By Patrick Phillips

Mating Saliva
By Richard Brautigan

Matins First appeared in Poetry
By Denise Levertov

Matins First appeared in Poetry
By David Wojahn

Matins
By Carol Frost

Matisse, Too First appeared in Poetry
By Alicia Ostriker

Maturity
By Philip Larkin

from Maud: O that 'twere possible
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Maud; A Monodrama (from Part I)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Maud; A Monodrama (from Part II)
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Maudlin; Or, The Magdalen’s Tears
By Linda Gregerson

Maximus, to Gloucester: Letter 2
By Charles Olson

Maximus, to himself
By Charles Olson

May
By Jonathan Galassi

MAY. [1748] III Month.
By Benjamin Franklin

Maybe It’s Only the Monotony
By Gail Mazur

Mayor Harold Washington
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Maze Without a Minotaur
By Dana Gioia

Measure
By Robert Hass

Measuring the Tyger
By Jack Gilbert

Medical History
By Carrie Shipers

Mediocrity in Love Rejected
By Thomas Carew

Meditation
By David St. John

Meditation at Fifty Yards, Moving Target
By Rita Dove

Meditation at Lagunitas
By Robert Hass

Meditation at Sundown
By Frederick Morgan

Meditation on a Grapefruit First appeared in Poetry
By Craig Arnold

Meditation on Statistical Method
By J. V. Cunningham

Meditation under Stars
By George Meredith

Meditations
By Margaret Fuller

Meditations in an Emergency First appeared in Poetry
By Frank O'Hara

Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Medley of the Cut
By John Peck

Medusa
By Louise Bogan

Meet Me in the Green Glen
By John Clare

Meeting at Night
By Robert Browning

Meeting the Mountains
By Gary Snyder

Meg Merrilies
By John Keats

Mehr Licht First appeared in Poetry
By Tim Dlugos

Melting Pot
By Bin Ramke

Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass

Memorabilia
By Robert Browning

Memorandum
By W. S. Merwin

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memorial Day
By Gregory Orr

Memorial Service First appeared in Poetry
By George Garrett

Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold

Memories Are a House First appeared in Poetry
By Avot Yeshurun

Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell

Memory As a Hearing Aid
By Tony Hoagland

Memory at These Speeds
By Jane Miller

Memphis Resurrection
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Men at Forty First appeared in Poetry
By Donald Justice

Men at My Father’s Funeral
By William Matthews

Men Say Brown First appeared in Poetry
By Henry M. Seiden

Men Say They Know Many Things
By Henry David Thoreau

Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly

Mending Wall
By Robert Frost

Menstruation at Forty
By Anne Sexton

from Mercian Hymns
By Geoffrey Hill

Merlin
By Henry Carlile

from Merlin and Vivien
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Merry-go-round
By Miroslav Holub

Merry-No-Round First appeared in Poetry
By Bill Knott

Messenger
By Dave Smith

Messengers
By Louise Glück

Messiah (Christmas Portions)
By Mark Doty

Meta-A and the A of Absolutes
By Jay Wright

Metals Metals
By Russell Edson

Methought I saw my late espousèd saint
By John Milton

Metropolitan
By John Fuller

Mezzo Cammin
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

mi'kmaq book of the dead First appeared in Poetry
By mIEKAL aND

Miami Heart
By Jane Miller

Michael O’Toole
By Phil Bolsta

Michiko Dead
By Jack Gilbert

Microcosmos
By Siegfried Sassoon

Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
By Gary Snyder

Mid-March
By Lizette Woodworth Reese

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Middle-Aged First appeared in Poetry
By Ezra Pound

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Midland Swimmer
By John Reibetanz

Midnight Salvage
By Adrienne Rich

Midstairs
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Midsummer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Fitzgerald

Midsummer First appeared in Poetry
By Louise Glück

Midwinter
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Midwinter
By Sophie Jewett

Mighty Forms
By Brenda Hillman

Miguel First appeared in Poetry
By César Vallejo

Mild is the Parting Year
By Walter Savage Landor

Military Mind First appeared in Poetry
By Charlie Smith

Milk
By Shirley Kaufman

Milton
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Milton
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Mind | Body First appeared in Poetry
By Gregory Djanikian

Mine
By Lilian Moore

Mine First appeared in Poetry
By Shail D. Patel

Mine own John Poynz
By Thomas Wyatt

Mingus at the Showplace First appeared in Poetry
By William Matthews

Mingus in Diaspora
By William Matthews

Miniature
By Brad Leithauser

Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth
By Elizabeth Alexander

Minor Litany
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Minor Poet First appeared in Poetry
By Bill Sweeney

Minuscule Things
By William Matthews

Mirabeau Bridge
By Guillaume Apollinaire

Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger

Miriam Tazewell
By John Crowe Ransom

Mirror First appeared in Poetry
By James Merrill

Mirror and Scarf
By Edmond Jabès

Mirror Image
By Samuel Menashe

Misery and Splendor
By Robert Hass

Misgivings
By Herman Melville

Misreading Housman
By Linda Pastan

Miss Scarlett First appeared in Poetry
By Vanessa Place

Missed Time First appeared in Poetry
By n/a

Missing Persons First appeared in Poetry
By Rae Armantrout

Mississippi
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Mixed-Up School
By X J Kennedy

Mme. Sperides
By Gregory Djanikian

Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney

Mobile-Buck
By James Edwin Campbell

Moby Dick
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Mock Orange
By Louise Glück

Modern Elfland
By G. K. Chesterton

Modern Love
By John Keats

Modern Love XXX
By George Meredith

Modern Love: I
By George Meredith

Modern Love: II
By George Meredith

Modern Love: IX
By George Meredith

Modern Love: L
By George Meredith

Modern Love: VIII
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XIV
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XLIX
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XLVI
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XLVII
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XVI
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XX
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XXII
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XXVI
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XXXIV
By George Meredith

modulation
By Spencer Selby

Molecular Evolution
By James Clerk Maxwell

Moly
By Thom Gunn

Moments of Terror
By Roddy Lumsden

Momus First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Monaco First appeared in Poetry
By Spencer Reece

Monastery Nights
By Chase Twichell

Monet Refuses the Operation
By Lisel Mueller

Monet: “Les Nymphéas”
By W. D. Snodgrass

Money
By Howard Nemerov

Money
By Reginald Gibbons

Money
By Philip Larkin

Money Is Also a Kind of Music First appeared in Poetry
By Jason Guriel

Money Won’t Change It (but time will take you on)
By Cornelius Eady

Mongrel Heart
By David Baker

Monk’s House, Rodmell
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Monody
By Herman Melville

Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan

Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Montale’s Grave
By Jonathan Galassi

Montana Pastoral
By J. V. Cunningham

Montparnasse
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Monuments
By Myra Sklarew

Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party First appeared in Poetry
By William E. Stafford

Moo, Moo, Brown Cow
By Anonymous

Moon
By William Jay Smith

Moon From the Porch
By Annie Finch

Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen

Moonlight: Chickens On The Road
By Robert Wrigley

Moonshine
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Moose Dreams First appeared in Poetry
By William Johnson

Moraine for Bob
By Joanna Fuhrman

Morality
By Matthew Arnold

More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright

More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

More Lying Loving Facts, You Sort ’Em Out First appeared in Poetry
By Arthur Vogelsang

More Rain
By W. S. Di Piero

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

More Than Enough
By Marge Piercy

Morel Mushrooms
By Jane Whitledge

Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Morning First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

Morning After
By Langston Hughes

Morning Arrives
By Franz Wright

Morning Hymn
By Charles Wesley

Morning News
By Marilyn Hacker

Morning Song
By Sylvia Plath

Morning Song
By Gregory Orr

Morning Talk
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Morningside Heights, July
By William Matthews

Mortal shower
By Bob Hicok

Mortal Sorrows First appeared in Poetry
By Rodney Jones

Morte d'Arthur
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Mosaic
By Linda Pastan

Moss
By Bruce Guernsey

Most Like an Arch This Marriage
By John Ciardi

Most Sweet it is
By William Wordsworth

Motet
By Michael Anania

Mother and Child
By Louise Glück

Mother and Child, Body and Soul
By Jean Valentine

Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mother Mind
By Julia Ward Howe

Mother to Son
By Langston Hughes

Mother's Closet
By Maxine Scates

Mother, I cannot Mind my Wheel
By Walter Savage Landor

Mother/Child: Coda
By Alicia Ostriker

Motherhood
By May Swenson

Mothers
By Nikki Giovanni

Moths First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer O'Grady

Mount Angel First appeared in Poetry
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Mountain Dulcimer First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Morgan

Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
By Robert E. Hayden

Movement Song
By Audre Lorde

Movie
By Eileen Myles

Moving Through The Dew
By Alfred Noyes

Mowing
By Robert Wrigley

Mowing
By Robert Frost

Mr. Edwards and the Spider
By Robert Lowell

Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mr. Luna’s Plum Tree
By Alberto Ríos

Mr. Nobody
By Anonymous

Mrs. Adam First appeared in Poetry
By Kathleen Norris

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Mrs. Caldera’s House of Things First appeared in Poetry
By Gregory Djanikian

Mrs. Hill
By B. H. Fairchild

Mrs. Kessler
By Edgar Lee Masters

Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds

Mu'allaqa First appeared in Poetry
By Imru'al-qays

Much in Little
By Yvor Winters

Much Madness is divinest Sense -
By Emily Dickinson

Muckraker First appeared in Poetry
By Cate Marvin

Mugging (I)
By Allen Ginsberg

Muier
By William Carlos Williams

mulberry fields
By Lucille Clifton

Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh
By Thomas James

Mums
By Bernadette Mayer

Murder
By David Baker

Murray Dreaming First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Edgar

Museums First appeared in Poetry
By Dan Beachy-Quick

Mushrooms
By Charles Tomlinson

Music First appeared in Poetry
By George Scarbrough

Music Swims Back to Me
By Anne Sexton

Music when Soft Voices Die (To --)
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Musical Moment
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Mutability
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mutability
By William Wordsworth

Mutoscope
By Elizabeth Spires

My Autograph
By Susanna Moodie

My Autumn Leaves
By Bruce Weigl

My Body
By William Jay Smith

My Boyfriend
By Camille Guthrie

My Brother
By Marci Ridlon

My Brother, the Artist, at Seven First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Levine

My Brother’s Bear
By Bruce Lansky

My Century First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Feldman

My Country ’Tis of Thee
By W. E. B. Du Bois

My Daughter at the Gymnastics Party
By David Bottoms

My Dearest Dust
By Catherine Dyer

My Dog Practices Geometry First appeared in Poetry
By Cathryn Essinger

My Doggy Ate My Homework
By Dave Crawley

My Dragon
By X J Kennedy

my dream about being white
By Lucille Clifton

my dream about the second coming
By Lucille Clifton

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
By Gwendolyn Brooks

My Erotic Double
By John Ashbery

My Father
By Jessie B. Rittenhouse

My Father Holds the Door for Yoko Ono
By Christopher Chambers

My Father in the Night Commanding No
By Louis Simpson

My Father Photographed With Friends
By William Bronk

My Father Teaches Me to Dream
By Jan Beatty

My Father’s Wedding
By Robert Bly

My Father’s Left Hand
By David Bottoms

My Father's Diary First appeared in Poetry
By Sharon Olds

My Father’s Closet
By D. Nurkse

My First Best Friend
By Jack Prelutsky

My Frog Is a Frog
By Jack Prelutsky

My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
By Thomas Wyatt

My Generation Reading the Newspapers
By Kenneth Patchen

My God First appeared in Poetry
By Susan Rolston

My Grandmother’s Love Letters
By Hart Crane

My Grave
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My Hair First appeared in Poetry
By Robin Behn

My Heart and I
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My House is the Red Earth
By Joy Harjo

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
By Robert Lowell

My Last Dance
By Julia Ward Howe

My Last Duchess
By Robert Browning

My Life
By Mark Strand

My Life
By Roddy Lumsden

My Life as a Subject First appeared in Poetry
By Meghan O'Rourke

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764)
By Emily Dickinson

from My Life: A name trimmed with colored ribbons
By Lyn Hejinian

from My Life: Reason looks for two, then arranges it from there
By Lyn Hejinian

My Life’s Delight
By Thomas Campion

My Limbo
By Roddy Lumsden

My Little Dreams
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

My Lost Youth
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My Love
By Don Paterson

My Lover Gave Me Green Leaves
By Josephine Dickinson

My Lute Awake
By Thomas Wyatt

My Madonna
By Robert W. Service

My Message Left Next to the Phone
By W. S. Di Piero

My Moses First appeared in Poetry
By Wendy Videlock

My Mother Contemplating Her Gun
By Nick Flynn

My Mother’s Pillow
By Cecilia Woloch

My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass

My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy

My name came from. . .
By Emmett Tenorio Melendez

My Old Idols
By J. D. McClatchy

My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman

My Pain
By Roddy Lumsden

My Picture Left in Scotland
By Ben Jonson

My Raptor
By Annie Finch

My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn

My Sad Self
By Allen Ginsberg

My Second Marriage To My First Husband First appeared in Poetry
By Alice Fulton

My Shadow
By Robert Louis Stevenson

My Shoes
By Charles Simic

My Sin
By Chungmi Kim

My Sister's Sleep
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My skeleton, my rival
By David Ignatow

My Son the Man
By Sharon Olds

My Soul
By Stevie Smith

My Soul First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Lehnert

My Star
By Robert Browning

My Sweetest Lesbia
By Thomas Campion

My Triumph
By John Greenleaf Whittier

My Uncle’s Favorite Coffee Shop
By Naomi Shihab Nye

My Violin
By Bruce Lansky

Mya Calendar
By Colette Inez

Mycerinus
By Matthew Arnold

Myrrha to the Source First appeared in Poetry
By Heather McHugh

Myself and My Person
By Anna Swir

Mysteries of Small Houses
By Alice Notley

Mystic Bounce First appeared in Poetry
By Terrance Hayes

Myth of the Blaze
By George Oppen

Mythistorema
By George Seferis

Mythmaking on the Merritt Parkway
By G. E. Murray

Mythology
By Marilyn Hacker