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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W.H.
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Wac-A-Mole Realism™
By Matthea Harvey

Wade Seego Believes Soylent Green Is People
By R. T. Smith

Wait
By Adrienne Rich

Wait First appeared in Poetry
By C. K. Williams

Waiter in a California Vietnamese Restaurant
By Clarence Major

Waiting
By Nikki Grimes

Waiting for Sweet Betty
By Clarence Major

Waiting for the Barbarians
By C. P. Cavafy

Waiting There
By Michael Anania

Wake Me in South Galway First appeared in Poetry
By Richard Tillinghast

Waking
By Carol Frost

Waking from Sleep
By Robert Bly

Wales Visitation
By Allen Ginsberg

Walking
By Thomas Traherne

Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni

Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser

Walking the Dunes First appeared in Poetry
By Brenda Hillman

Walking to School, 1964
By David Wojahn

Walking West
By William E. Stafford

Wall and Pine: The Rain
By Anne Winters

Wall, Cave, and Pillar Statements, After Asoka
By Alan Dugan

Wallpapering
By Sue Ellen Thompson

Walsinghame
By Sir Walter Ralegh

Walt, the Wounded
By W. S. Di Piero

Walter Llywarch
By R. S. Thomas

Want Song
By Lance Larsen

Wanted
By Frank Stanford

Wanting Sumptuous Heavens
By Robert Bly

Wanting to Die
By Anne Sexton

War Ballad
By Stanley Moss

War Bird: A Journal
By David Gewanter

from War is Kind ["Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind"]
By Stephen Crane

from War is Kind ["I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night"]
By Stephen Crane

War Voyeurs
By Juan Felipe Herrera

War Widow
By Chris Abani

Warm Days in January
By Donald Revell

Warm Summer Sun
By Mark Twain

Warning from a Visitor in the Control Tower
By Calvin Thomas

Was He Married?
By Stevie Smith

Wash of Cold River
By H. D.

Washing Day
By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Washing My Hair
By Anne Stevenson

Washington McNeely
By Edgar Lee Masters

Washington Square
By Frederick Morgan

Wasp
By Zbigniew Herbert

Wasps First appeared in Poetry
By Ho Xuan Huong

Wasteful Gesture Only Not
By Tony Hoagland

Watch Repair
By Charles Simic

Watching Television
By Robert Bly

Watching the Complex Train-Track Changes
By Bernadette Mayer

Water
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Water Music
By Hugh MacDiarmid

Waterwings
By Cathy Song

Waumandee First appeared in Poetry
By Mark Wunderlich

Wavelength
By David St. John

Waving Goodbye First appeared in Poetry
By Gerald Stern

Waving Goodbye
By Elizabeth Spires

wax job
By Charles Bukowski

Wax Lips
By Cynthia Rylant

Way Opposite
By Harryette Mullen

Way Out West
By Amiri Baraka

Way-Station
By Archibald MacLeish

Ways of Talking First appeared in Poetry
By Ha Jin

We Are Seven
By William Wordsworth

We Eat Out Together
By Bernadette Mayer

We Had Seen a Pig
By Marvin Bell

We Had Words
By Vona Groarke

We Have Not Long To Love First appeared in Poetry
By Tennessee Williams

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

We Old Dudes First appeared in Poetry
By Joan Murray

We Real Cool First appeared in Poetry
By Gwendolyn Brooks

We Tend to Sleep Better When the Clock Is Wound First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Boss

We Wear the Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

We were Two Rooms of One Timber, But I Left that Place Alone
By Camille T. Dungy

Weaponry First appeared in Poetry
By Kim Addonizio

Weariness
By Eva Gore-Booth

Weariness of Men
By Frank Stanford

Weather
By Clarence Major

Webs and Weeds
By Colleen J. McElroy

Wedding Dress
By Michael Waters

Wedding Hymn
By Sidney Lanier

Wedding-Ring
By Denise Levertov

Wee Willie Winkie
By Anonymous

Weighing In
By Rhina P. Espaillat

Weighing Light
By Geoffrey Brock

Well Said, Davy
By John Fuller

Well, You Needn’t
By William Matthews

Weltende Variation #?
By Bill Knott

Were I to Wring a Rag First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Boss

Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee
By Grizel Baillie

West Topsham
By John Engels

Western
By Michelle Bennett

Western Civilization
By James Galvin

Westray: 1991
By Linda Bierds

Wet-weather Talk
By James Whitcomb Riley

What About This
By Frank Stanford

What are the Days?
By Colette Inez

What Became First appeared in Poetry
By Wesley McNair

What Calls Us
By David Bengtson

What For
By Garrett Hongo

What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel

What He Thought
By Heather McHugh

What I Have First appeared in Poetry
By Seth Abramson

What I Know First appeared in Poetry
By Patrick Dubost

What I Know About Epistemology First appeared in Poetry
By John Surowiecki

What I Learned From My Mother
By Julia Kasdorf

What I Miss
By Anne Stevenson

What I Saw
By Robert Duncan

What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz

What is it to be human? First appeared in Poetry
By Waldo Williams

What Is the Field? First appeared in Poetry
By Leila Wilson

What Kind of Mistress He would Have
By Robert Herrick

What Kind of Times Are These
By Adrienne Rich

What Length of Verse?
By Philip Sidney

What Light Destroys
By Andrew Hudgins

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

What loves, takes away First appeared in Poetry
By Eleanor Wilner

What My Father Left Behind
By Chris Forhan

What Needeth these Threat'ning Words
By Thomas Wyatt

What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert

What should I Say
By Thomas Wyatt

What the Birds Said
By John Greenleaf Whittier

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

What the Frost Casts Up
By Ed Ochester

What the Leaf Told Me
By Ronald Johnson

What the Rattlesnake Said First appeared in Poetry
By Vachel Lindsay

What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay

What the Stars Meant
By John Koethe

What to Count On
By Peggy Shumaker

What To Do First appeared in Poetry
By W. S. Di Piero

What to Eat, What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison
By Camille T. Dungy

What Way First appeared in Poetry
By A. F. Moritz

What We Need
By Jo McDougall

What Work Is
By Philip Levine

What You Pray Toward
By Patricia Smith

What’s Bad First appeared in Poetry
By Gottfried Benn

What's New?
By Philip Whalen

What's Wrong First appeared in Poetry
By Landis Everson

What’s Written on the Body
By Peter Pereira

Whatever Can Be Done, Will Be Done
By Constance Urdang

Whatever Is
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

Wheel
By Michael Palmer

When All My Five and Country Senses See First appeared in Poetry
By Dylan Thomas

When ’Midst the Gay I Meet
By Thomas Moore

When Big Joan Sets Up First appeared in Poetry
By Jason Labbe

When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue
By William Shakespeare

When de Co'n Pone's Hot
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

When Father Decided He Did Not Love Her Anymore First appeared in Poetry
By Lynn Emanuel

When he would have his Verses Read
By Robert Herrick

When I Am Asked First appeared in Poetry
By Lisel Mueller

When I am dead, my dearest
By Christina Rossetti

When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
By John Keats

When I Heard at the Close of the Day
By Walt Whitman

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

When I Was One-and-Twenty
By A. E. Housman

When in Wisconsin Where I Once Had Time
By John Engels

When Last We Parted
By Catherine Maria Fanshawe

When Life
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman

When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly
By Oliver Goldsmith

When on the Marge of Evening
By Louise Imogen Guiney

When the Frost is on the Punkin
By James Whitcomb Riley

When the Gods Go, Half-Gods Arrive
By Lucie Brock-Broido

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground
By Thomas Campion

When to Her Lute Corinna Sings
By Thomas Campion

When You Are Not Surprised
By Conrad Aiken

When You Are Old
By William Butler Yeats

when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
By Gwendolyn Brooks

When You Watch Us Sleeping
By Pattiann Rogers

Where Are The Stars Pristine
By Alice Fulton

Where Are the Waters of Childhood?
By Mark Strand

Where I’ll Be Good
By Michael Ryan

Where the Blue Begins
By George Bradley

Where They Lived
By Marge Saiser

Whether
By Alfred Corn

Whispers of Immortality
By T. S. Eliot

White Ash Goes Up at a Touch First appeared in Poetry
By Todd Boss

White Darkness
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

White hair does not weigh
By Samuel Menashe

White Head
By Sophie Jewett

White Heliotrope
By Arthur Symons

White Oxen
By Louis Simpson

from White Phosphorous
By Alice Notley

White Rose
By Tom Pickard

White Water
By Eamon Grennan

White-Eyes First appeared in Poetry
By Mary Oliver

Who Am I, Without Exile?
By Mahmoud Darwish

Who Am I? First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Sandburg

Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rossetti

who in the hell is Tom Jones?
By Charles Bukowski

Who kills my history First appeared in Poetry
By Joan Houlihan

Who Lived Among Them First appeared in Poetry
By Olivia Clare

Who Said It Was Simple
By Audre Lorde

Who Steals My Good Name First appeared in Poetry
By W. D. Snodgrass

Who Understands Me but Me
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
By Walt Whitman

Whoso List to Hunt, I Know where is an Hind
By Thomas Wyatt

Why
By William Jay Smith

Why Are Your Poems So Dark? First appeared in Poetry
By Linda Pastan

Why do I hate Flarf so much? First appeared in Poetry
By Drew Gardner

Why do you stay up so late? First appeared in Poetry
By Don Paterson

Why I Am Not a Painter
By Frank O'Hara

Why I Might Go to the Next Football Game
By Denis Johnson

Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket
By Vachel Lindsay

Why Nobody Pets the Lion at the Zoo
By John Ciardi

Why the Pretty One
By Richard Emil Braun

Why They Turned Back/Why They Went On
By Constance Urdang

Why We Are Truly a Nation
By William Matthews

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Widow McFarlane
By Edgar Lee Masters

Wight First appeared in Poetry
By Stanley Plumly

Wild Flowers
By Matthew Vetter

Wild nights - Wild nights! (269)
By Emily Dickinson

Wild Oats
By Philip Larkin

Wild Peaches
By Elinor Wylie

Wild Turkeys: The Dignity of the Damned
By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Wildflowers
By Reginald Gibbons

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

Willie’s Wart
By Kenn Nesbitt

Willowspout First appeared in Poetry
By R. T. Smith

Willowware Cup
By James Merrill

Win-Win First appeared in Poetry
By Ange Mlinko

Wind
By Mike White

Wind In Mytilene
By Eloise Klein Healy

Windchime
By Tony Hoagland

Windigo
By Louise Erdrich

Windows
By Linda Bierds

Windy City
By Stuart Dybek

Windy Nights
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine First appeared in Poetry
By Pierre Martory

Wine
By David Wojahn

Winesaps
By Dave Smith

Winged Purposes First appeared in Poetry
By Dean Young

Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove

Wings
By Miroslav Holub

Winter
By Marie Ponsot

Winter
By Anne Hunter

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Winter Dawn
By Kenneth Slessor

Winter Dusk
By Walter De La Mare

Winter Journal: Disseminate Birds over Water
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Fish Rises, Dark Brown Muscle Turns Over
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Gold Rivulet Weave, Gauded
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Gray Shadings
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Scratchings among the Burnings
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: The Sky Is the Lost Orpheum
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Threshed Blue, Cardings, Dim Tonsils
By Emily Wilson

Winter Journal: Wind Thumbs through Woods
By Emily Wilson

Winter Love
By Linda Gregg

Winter Mask
By Allen Tate

Winter Remembered
By John Crowe Ransom

Winter Trees
By William Carlos Williams

Wipe That Simile Off Your Aphasia
By Harryette Mullen

Wish for an Overcoat
By Alfred Islay Walden

wishes for sons
By Lucille Clifton

Wishes to his (Supposed) Mistress
By Richard Crashaw

Witch Doctor
By Robert E. Hayden

With a Book
By Ambrose Bierce

With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath
By Linda Gregerson

With Mercy for the Greedy
By Anne Sexton

With Sincerest Regrets
By Russell Edson

Without Regret
By Eleanor Wilner

Without Toys at the Home
By Colette Inez

Woman to Man
By Ai

Woman Unborn
By Anna Swir

Woman’s Rights
By Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman

Woman's Constancy
By John Donne

Women
By Louise Bogan

Women
By May Swenson

Women in Profile: Bas-Relief, Left Section Missing
By Susan Mitchell

won't you celebrate with me
By Lucille Clifton

Wonder
By Thomas Traherne

Wonder as Wander
By Sharon Olds

Wonderbread
By Alfred Corn

Wood
By Reginald Gibbons

Woodcut
By Thomas McGrath

Woods Burial
By John Peck

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian

Words
By Barbara Guest

Words for a Girlfriend
By Cesare Pavese

Words for a Young Widow in Maine
By Norman Williams

Words from Confinement
By Cesare Pavese

Work
By Sherod Santos

Work Shy
By Alex Phillips

Work Song First appeared in Poetry
By Joshua Mehigan

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Working Habits
By George Starbuck

Working Outside at Night
By Denis Johnson

Works on Paper First appeared in Poetry
By Anne Winters

Workshop
By Billy Collins

World Without End
By Kevin Stein

Worldly Place
By Matthew Arnold

Worms First appeared in Poetry
By Carl Dennis

Wrestling
By Louisa S. Bevington

Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday
By Gregory Corso

Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem
By Gregory Corso

Writing
By Howard Nemerov

Writing in the Afterlife First appeared in Poetry
By Billy Collins

from Writing Is an Aid to Memory: 16.
By Lyn Hejinian

from Writing Is an Aid to Memory: 17.
By Lyn Hejinian

Writing Letters to My Mother
By Colette Inez

Writing Off Argentina
By Ron Slate

Written in her French Psalter
By Elizabeth I

Written in London. September, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

Written on the eve of my 20th high school reunion, which I was not able to attend First appeared in Poetry
By A.E. Stallings

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

Written with a Pencil Found in Lorine Niedecker’s Front Yard
By David Trinidad

Wyatt Resteth Here
By Henry Howard, earl of Surrey

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
By Eugene Field