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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Pa’s Soft Spot
By D. A. Ellsworth

Pace of Life
By Pierre Reverdy

Pacemaker First appeared in Poetry
By W. D. Snodgrass

Paean to Place
By Lorine Niedecker

Pagani's, November 8
By Ezra Pound

Paho at Walpi
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Paideia
By George Bradley

Painting over Aya Sofia First appeared in Poetry
By Caleb Klaces

Paintings
By Marin Sorescu

Paired Things
By Kay Ryan

Palace
By Guillaume Apollinaire

Palais des Artes
By Louise Glück

Palladium
By Matthew Arnold

Palm Sunday Maple Syrup Poem
By Bernadette Mayer

Pangur Bán First appeared in Poetry
By Anonymous

Papyrus
By Eamon Grennan

Parable for Vanished Countries
By Peter Balakian

Parable in Praise of Violence
By Tony Barnstone

Parable of the Desultory Slut
By Tony Barnstone

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Parable of the Swans
By Louise Glück

Paradise Lost: Book I (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book IX (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book VII (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book XI (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Lost: Book XII (1674)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book I (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book II (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book III (1671)
By John Milton

Paradise Regain'd: Book IV (1671)
By John Milton

Paradoxes and Oxymorons
By John Ashbery

from Paragraphs from a Day-Book (section 1 only) First appeared in Poetry
By Marilyn Hacker

Parallax
By Arthur Sze

Parental Recollections
By Charles Lamb

Parents
By Robert Wrigley

Paris and Helen
By Judy Grahn

Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell

Parks and ponds
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parmi beaucoup de poèmes / Among Many Poems First appeared in Poetry
By Jacques Roubaud

Parsley
By Rita Dove

Part Elegy
By Robert Wrigley

Part for the Whole First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Francis

Part of a Legacy
By Frank Steele

Parthenogenesis
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Partial Resemblance
By Denise Levertov

Parting at Morning
By Robert Browning

Parting Song First appeared in Poetry
By Jill Alexander Essbaum

Parting: 1940 First appeared in Poetry
By John Frederick Nims

Paschal First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Pinsky

Pass It On, III
By Rachel Hadas

Passage First appeared in Poetry
By Rae Armantrout

Passage over Water
By Robert Duncan

Passages from Virgil’s First Georgic
By Robert Fitzgerald

Passing
By Toi Derricotte

Passing away, Saith the World
By Christina Rossetti

Passing Remark
By William E. Stafford

Passing the Frontier First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Martory

Passing Through
By Ai

Passing Through
By Stanley Kunitz

Passion for Solitude
By Cesare Pavese

Passionata
By Lynn Crosbie

Passtime with good company
By Henry VIII, king of England

Past and Future
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Pastoral
By Bei Dao

Pastoral Dialogue
By Anne Killigrew

Pater Noster
By Catherine Imbriglio

Paterson
By Allen Ginsberg

Path
By Pierre Reverdy

Paths First appeared in Poetry
By John Montague

Patience First appeared in Poetry
By Katherine Larson

Patience, Though I Have Not
By Thomas Wyatt

Patroling Barnegat
By Walt Whitman

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Pauline Is Falling First appeared in Poetry
By Jean Nordhaus

Peace
By Henry Vaughan

Peach First appeared in Poetry
By Jennifer Tonge

Peacock Display
By David Wagoner

Pear
By Susan Stewart

Pearl: Section I (Modern version)
By William Langland

Peddler
By Sandra McPherson

Pedestrian
By Thomas Lux

Pedestrian
By Marin Sorescu

Pediatrics
By Carol Muske-Dukes

Peekaboo: Three Songs for the Nursery
By Anthony Hecht

Penumbra
By Amy Lowell

Penumbrae
By John Updike

People First appeared in Poetry
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

People Getting Divorced
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Perfect
By Kenn Nesbitt

Perfect Pitch
By Peter Pereira

Perhaps
By Hilda Morley

Perhaps the World Ends Here
By Joy Harjo

Peripeteia
By Anthony Hecht

Peripheries
By Ruth Stone

Perishable, It Said First appeared in Poetry
By Jane Hirshfield

Perpetuum Mobile
By Marin Sorescu

Perplexity: A Poem
By Elizabeth Hands

Perseus in Arkansas
By Diane Glancy

Persimmons
By Li-Young Lee

Personal First appeared in Poetry
By Tony Hoagland

Perspectives
By R. S. Thomas

Peter Quince at the Clavier
By Wallace Stevens

Petersen: Kleichen and a Man First appeared in Poetry
By George Szirtes

phabetical
By Nico Vassilakis

Phase 3: Final Interview, a Few Last Questions
By J. Allyn Rosser

Phases First appeared in Poetry
By Wallace Stevens

Pheasant
By Sylvia Plath

Phenomenal Woman
By Maya Angelou

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Philomela
By Matthew Arnold

Philosopher Orders Crispy Pork First appeared in Poetry
By Heather McHugh

Philosophia Perennis
By Anne Waldman

Photo (Op/tative) Synthesis First appeared in Poetry
By Liz Waldner

Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968
By Cornelius Eady

Photo, Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949
By Margaret Kaufman

Photograph from September 11
By Wisława Szymborska

Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving
By Clarence Major

Photographs
By Barbara Guest

Physics
By Richard Kenney

Piano
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Piano
By Patrick Phillips

Piazza Piece
By John Crowe Ransom

Pick Me Up
By William Jay Smith

Pickers
By John Haines

Picture of a Nativity
By Geoffrey Hill

Picture of Little Letters
By John Koethe

Pied Beauty
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pied Booty First appeared in Poetry
By Dabney Stuart

Pig Song First appeared in Poetry
By Margaret Atwood

Pillow Talk
By John Fuller

Pine
By Chase Twichell

Pink Slip at Tool & Dye
By Dave Smith

Pits
By Frank Stanford

Pity
By Camille T. Dungy

Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
By Matthea Harvey

Piute Creek
By Gary Snyder

Place Names
By Thomas James Merton

Plague of Dead Sharks
By Alan Dugan

Plaint in a Major Key First appeared in Poetry
By Jorge Sánchez

Plaisir First appeared in Poetry
By Stephen Dunn

Planetarium
By Adrienne Rich

Planning the Disappearance of Those Who Have Gone
By Frank Stanford

Planting a Dogwood
By Roy Scheele

Planting the Meadow First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Makofske

Planting the Sand Cherry
By Ann Struthers

Plasma First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Rutherglen

Platonic Love First appeared in Poetry
By Curt Anderson

Platonic Love
By Abraham Cowley

Play in Which Darkness Falls
By Frank Stanford

Playing Dead First appeared in Poetry
By Andrew Hudgins

Playroom
By Mary Barnard

Playthings
By Rabindranath Tagore

Plead for Me
By Emily Jane Brontë

Please
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Pleasures
By Denise Levertov

Plowing through Ashes
By Walter McDonald

Plumblossom First appeared in Poetry
By Eric Ekstrand

Plumblossom First appeared in Poetry
By Eric Ekstrand

Plundered First appeared in Poetry
By Fabio Pusterla

Poem
By Carl Rakosi

Poem
By Thomas McGrath

Poem
By Frank Stanford

Poem (The day gets slowly started) First appeared in Poetry
By James Schuyler

Poem (To be read with Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 5)
By Matthea Harvey

Poem about My Rights
By June Jordan

Poem about People
By Robert Pinsky

Poem Beginning with a Line by Frank Lima
By Lisa Jarnot

Poem by the Charles River
By Robin Blaser

Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like
By Nikki Giovanni

Poem for Bernard
By Amy Gerstler

Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur

Poem for My Love
By June Jordan

Poem for My Twentieth Birthday First appeared in Poetry
By Kenneth Koch

Poem for Nana
By June Jordan

Poem in October First appeared in Poetry
By Dylan Thomas

Poem of Disconnected Parts First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Pinsky

Poem to Some of My Recent Poems
By James Tate

Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton

Poem with One Fact
By Donald Hall

Poem [“At night Chinamen jump”]
By Frank O'Hara

Poem [“The eager note on my door said, ‘Call me,’”]
By Frank O'Hara

Poem: Octopus floating . . . First appeared in Poetry
By Bill Knott

Poems About Trees First appeared in Poetry
By K. Silem Mohammad

Poet as Housewife First appeared in Poetry
By Elisabeth Eybers

Poet Dances with Inanimate Object
By Cornelius Eady

Poet on Small Hillside
By Mary Kinzie

Poet’s work
By Lorine Niedecker

Poetics
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetics
By Rodrigo Toscano

Poetry First appeared in Poetry
By Arthur Davidson Ficke

Poetry
By Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Poetry, a Natural Thing
By Robert Duncan

Poker Star
By Richard Brautigan

Political Poem
By Amiri Baraka

Politics
By William Meredith

Politics of Mop and Sponge
By Kevin Stein

Pomegranates
By Hilda Morley

Pompeii First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Bernstein

Poor Angels First appeared in Poetry
By Edward Hirsch

Poor Crow!
By Mary Mapes Dodge

Poor Old Lady
By Anonymous

Poorly Dressed
By Bruce Lansky

Pop
By Elinor Maxwell

Poppies in July
By Sylvia Plath

Poppies in October
By Sylvia Plath

Poppies on the Wheat
By Helen Hunt Jackson

Populist
By George Oppen

Porphyria's Lover
By Robert Browning

Port of Aerial Embarkation
By John Ciardi

Port Royal
By C. Dale Young

Port-Au-Prince
By E. Ethelbert Miller

Portrait
By Babette Deutsch

Portrait
By Louise Bogan

Portrait
By John Frederick Nims

Portrait d’une Femme First appeared in Poetry
By Michael Hofmann

Portrait d'une Femme
By Ezra Pound

Portrait from the Infantry
By Alan Dugan

Portrait of a Figure near Water
By Jane Kenyon

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Portrait of the Author
By Cesare Pavese

Possible Answers to Prayer
By Scott Cairns

Post-Traumatic Shock, Newark, New Jersey, 1942
By Peter Balakian

from Postcards: A Metaphysical Journey
By Primus St. John

Poste Restante
By R. S. Thomas

Postfeminism
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Posthumous First appeared in Poetry
By Jean Nordhaus

Postlude First appeared in Poetry
By William Carlos Williams

Postlude
By Noelle Kocot

Postpartum Blues First appeared in Poetry
By Elton Glaser

Poverty
By Jane Taylor

Power in Silence
By Michael Field

from Powers of Thirteen: 29 [An Old Song]
By John Hollander

Prairie Houses
By Barbara Guest

Prairie Octopus, Awake First appeared in Poetry
By Nicky Beer

Prais’d be Diana’s Fair and Harmless Light
By Sir Walter Ralegh

Praise
By Stanley Moss

Praise
By Hilda Morley

Praise Song for the Day
By Elizabeth Alexander

Prayer
By Alan Dugan

Prayer
By Jorie Graham

Prayer
By Marin Sorescu

Prayer (I)
By George Herbert

Prayer for an Irish Father
By Norman Williams

Prayer for My Father First appeared in Poetry
By Robert Bly

Prayer for the Dead
By Stuart Kestenbaum

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Prayer Rug
By Agha Shahid Ali

Prayer to the Pacific
By Leslie Marmon Silko

Praying Drunk
By Andrew Hudgins

Pre-Dialogue, II
By Edmond Jabès

Pre-Text
By Marie Ponsot

Prehistoric First appeared in Poetry
By Claire Malroux

Preliminary Sketches: Philadelphia
By Elizabeth Alexander

Prelude
By Michael Palmer

Preludes
By T. S. Eliot

from Preludes for Memnon
By Conrad Aiken

Preparation
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Preparedness
By Edwin Markham

Preposition
By Sally Van Doren

Pretty
By Stevie Smith

Priceless Gifts
By Anna Swir

Pride First appeared in Poetry
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Primer For Blacks
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Primitive Road First appeared in Poetry
By Lucas Howell

Print
By Billy Collins

Prison Song First appeared in Poetry
By Alan Dugan

Prisoner in a Hole
By Sholeh Wolpé

Prisoners
By Denise Levertov

Privacy
By C. D. Wright

Private Beach
By Jane Kenyon

Private Eye Lettuce
By Richard Brautigan

Pro Femina
By Carolyn Kizer

Probation First appeared in Poetry
By Averill Curdy

Problems of Translation: Problems of Language
By June Jordan

Procedures First appeared in Poetry
By Rae Armantrout

Prodigal
By Bob Hicok

Prodigy
By Charles Simic

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Prof of Profs First appeared in Poetry
By Geoffrey Brock

Progressive Health First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Project for a Fainting
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Prologue
By Anne Bradstreet

Prologue to a Bidding
By Forrest Gander

Prometheus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Prometheus Unbound
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Promises Are for Liars
By James Galvin

Prophecy First appeared in Poetry
By Jules Supervielle

Prophetic Outlook
By Ernest Hilbert

Prose 22
By Michael Palmer

Prose 31
By Michael Palmer

Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale
By Edmund Spenser

Prospice
By Robert Browning

Prothalamion
By Edmund Spenser

Prothalamion
By Michael Ryan

Prothalamion
By David Jones

Protus
By Robert Browning

Proud Maisie
By Sir Walter Scott

Proust’s Madeleine
By Kenneth Rexroth

Proverbs
By Thomas James Merton

Provinces
By C. D. Wright

Provincetown Fourth First appeared in Poetry
By Seth Abramson

Provo
By Mark Rudman

Psalm First appeared in Poetry
By George Oppen

Psalm First appeared in Poetry
By Philip Memmer

Psalm First appeared in Poetry
By Samuel Menashe

Psalm 114
By Isaac Watts

Psalm 114
By Christopher Smart

Psalm 58
By Isaac Watts

Psalm 58
By Christopher Smart

Psyche and Eros in Florida First appeared in Poetry
By Debora Greger

Psychoanalysis of Water
By Forrest Gander

Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer

Publication – is the Auction (788)
By Emily Dickinson

Pullman Porter
By Robert W. Service

Pulp Fiction
By David Baker

Pumberly Pott’s Unpredictable Niece
By Jack Prelutsky

from Punchinello in Chains: VI. Punchinello Dreams of Escape
By William Logan

Puppet-Maker First appeared in Poetry
By Charles Simic

Pura Vida First appeared in Poetry
By John Updike

Pure Conversation with a Chinese Character
By Marin Sorescu

Pyrography
By John Ashbery