Poetry Magazine

2008- January

Articles

Made to Measure, The Red Sea Devotion: The Garment District Nocturnal, Divine Rights Devotion: The Burnt-Over District Stephen Edgar Bruce Smith callas lover, cruel, cruel summer The History of Mothers of Sons D.A. Powell Lisa Furmanski

Man of War, Argonaut's Vow Pink Ocean Carol Frost Stuart Dybek

The Solipsist The Taste of Silence Troy Jollimore

Citation Responsibilities Joshua Mehigan Joanie V. Mackowski

Repetition,The Late Worm, Clamor and Quiet Cut Out For It Ange Mlinko Closing the Circle Getting Where We're Going Jhumpa Lahiri John Brehm

A Night in Brooklyn The Dead Remember Brooklyn The Rain-Streaked Avenues of Central Queens D. Nurkse

Moose Dreams, Dogwood William Johnson

Biographer Samuel Menashe

La Porte Rachel Webster

There's Nothing More Wendy Videlock Poetry Magazine

2008- Feb.

Articles

Midsummer, Dawn Leaving Prague: A Notebook Louise Glück Alexei Tsvetkov

bon bon il est un pays, Mort de A.D. Four Takes à elle l’acte calme, Ascension D. H. Tracy La Mouche, Arènes de Lutèce Samuel Beckett Letter to the Editor James Matthew Wilson Fowling Piece Heidy Steidlmayer Letter to the Editor Sean Lysaght

An Old Woman’s Painting Letter to the Editor Jim Carmin Lynn Emanuel Letter to the Editor Michael Hudson Full Fathom Letter to the Editor Robert Longoni

J. Learns the Difference Between Letter to the Editor Poverty and Having No Money Jeffrey Schultz

Stemming from Stevens

Lisa Williams

Ladybirds

Larissa Szporluk

Rose Thorns

Molly McQuade

Kertész: Latrine,Ross: Children of the

Ghetto,Ross: Yellow Star

Doisneau: Underground Press

Sudek: Tree

Petersen: Kleichen and a Man

Kolár: Housing Estate

George Szirtes

Sincerity and Its Discontents in

American Poetry Now Peter Campion Poetry Magazine

2008- March

Articles

Nights on Planet Earth Campbell McGrath Letter to the Editor William Watt

Containment, The Catch Letter to the Editor Michael A.E. Stallings Marcinkowski

The Violinist at the Window, 1918 Letter to the Editor Edward McCrorie Jorie Graham Letter to the Editor George Gulick New Folk, Ode to Big Trend Stick Elegy, Cocktails with Orpheus Clive James responds: Clive James Mystic Bounce Terrance Hayes Letter to the Editor Robert Kramer

The French Prisoner, On the Wall of a Letter to the Editor Michael Farry KZ Lager, Van Gogh's Prayer János Pilinszky

Cy Twombly, "Night Watch" Cy Twombly, "Beyond (A System for Passing)" H. L. Hix

Lemnos, The Red Portrait Karl Kirchwey

Conversion Comedy Ange Mlinko

Johnny One Note "Pacific Surfliner" Now Arriving San Diego W. S. Di Piero

Myrrha to the Source, From the Towers Space Bar Heather McHugh

Six Books Joel Brouwer Poetry Magazine

2008- April

Articles

"Poetry rejoices..." "Phoebus was gone, all gone, his journey Your Hair of Snakes and Flowers over" Håkan Sandell Anonymous

The Crane Dance Wasps, Snail, Jackfruit Yannis Ritsos Floating Sweet Dumpling Lamenting Widow In Memoriam, July 19, 1914 Ho Xuan Huong Anna Akhmatova For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut‚Äö "Our sweet companions-sharing your Takashi Hiraide bunk and your bed‚" Marina Tsvetaeva Up on Top, Barley Field Olav H. Hauge The Trees Delete Themselves Inside a Fog-Sphere Memories Are a House, The Son of the Francis Ponge Wall Avot Yeshurun Aesomes, Loners Jean Follain To Put It Differently Natan Zach San Biagio, at Montepulciano Yves Bonnefoy Charms for Love Anonymous Creative Writing Miroslav Holub To His Lady Giacomo Leopardi Mu'allaqa Imru'al-qays Immortal Instant Marko Vesović Tigris Song, Baghdad Song Ibn Al-`Arabi Day in Autumn, The Beggars The Rape of Europa Ovid The Song of the Birds Anonymous What is it to be human? Waldo Williams Black Stone on a White Stone Miguel César Vallejo Because of this Modest Style Ramón López Velarde

From the Artist's Sketchbook Annette M'Baye

In the Lake Region Tomas Venclova

"For years my heart inquired of me‚" Hafez

Poetry Magazine

2008- May

Articles

Monaco Skink Spencer Reece Rodney Jones

The Decision, The Pear, Seawater Islands Apart: A Notebook Stiffens Cloth, All the Difficult Hours Eavan Boland and Minutes Jane Hirshfield Curious Specimens: An Exchange Cate Marvin & Joshua Mehigan Osteosarcoma: A Love Poem Yvonne Zipter The Plight of the Poet-Critic Carmine Starnino Nebraska, Hands Are Wood Provincetown Fourth Fugitive Train Seth Abramson A.E. Stallings

I Imagine My Father’s Death Accessibility Blues Bryan D. Dietrich Christina Pugh

Photo (Op/tative) Synthesis Liz Waldner

Infidelity Philip White

Empire Mark Irwin

Colonoscopy Sonnet Sandra M. Gilbert

Sustenance, Get Up, John, Landscape with Scavengers and Bonelight Chris Dombrowski

The Cause Daniel Tobin

Ensor, They Come Cathy Park Hong

Poetry Magazine

2008- June

Articles

For Edwin Wilson, For Emily Wilson Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso A. R. Ammons Death Donald Revell Written on the eve of my 20th high school reunion, which I was not able to A Lowrider Loudly Brings Us attend, Two Violins, Sublunary What To Do A.E. Stallings W. S. Di Piero

It includes the butterfly and the rat, the Pompeii shit Two Stones with One Bird Birdsong, face it, some male machine Charles Bernstein Marianne Boruch Anything But the Case The Approaches Harry Clifton It Was a Bichon Frisé's Life . . . An Aubade A Not Unruffled Surface Joel Brouwer Ange Mlinko

The Consultant for the Mayor Voyager Robert VanderMolen Roman Room Todd Hearon My Life as a Subject On Marriage Parting Song Meghan O'Rourke 4:13 am Jill Alexander Essbaum republic D.A. Powell Djinn Missing Persons And So the Skin . . . Hoop Coexistence: A Lost and Almost Found Apartment Poem Rae Armantrout Peter Cole The Apophatic Ludlow Nance Van Winckel Against Conceit Ornithogalum Dubium Daddy: 1933 Roddy Lumsden Geoffrey Brock

Puppet-Maker Charles Simic Beirut Tank Letter to the Editor Daniel Robbins Stranding For the Executive Director of the Fallen Letter to the Editor Massimo Bacigalupo Tom Sleigh Letter to the Editor Ed Allen Time to Play The Green Car Letter to the Editor Hassel Ledbetter Landis Everson Letter to the Editor Charles Thomas Bird at the Window Sophie Cabot Black Letter to the Editor Joanne Growney

The Years Letter to the Editor Ruth Berman Night For Adam Michael Hofmann

Instructions to an Artisan Amit Majmudar

Letter to the Editor Joseph Bednarik

Letter to the Editor Marilyn Chin

Letter to the Editor Gwendolyn Jensen

Letter to the Editor The Editors

Letter to the Editor T.S. Kerrigan

Letter to the Editor Ginny Thompson

Letter to the Editor Robert King

Letter to the Editor Llyn Clague

Letter to the Editor Lynn Levin

Letter to the Editor Kathleen M. Du Haime

Letter to the Editor Dian Duchin Reed

Letter to the Editor Ammon Allred

Poetry Magazine

2008- Jul / Aug.

Articles

Work Song Joshua Mehigan Old Smile at the Roast Glyn Maxwell

The Theory 0f Hats Plaisir Marvel David Biespiel Psalm Philip Memmer

Silent Prophet The Breather My Hair Robin Behn Trout Kathryn Starbuck Selected Recent and New Errors Dean Prof of Profs Young Geoffrey Brock The Play of Light and Shadow My Moses D. Nurkse Wendy Videlock Thistles Heidy Steidlmayer The Storm Is Over Soft Spots Biology Stephen O’connor Alchemy Jason Guriel Introduction Peter Gizzi

Marble-Sized Song "Any fool can get into an ocean..." Albert Goldbarth [Response to the Loyalty Oath] A Second Train Song for Gary Philosopher Orders Crispy Pork [Letter to Gary Bottone] Dark View Heather McHugh "Imagine Lucifer..." A Poem For Dada Day At The Place A Lock of Her Hair Robert Wrigley April 1, 1958 Five Poems From "Helen: A Revision" Song That Can Only Be Sung Once Helen: A Revision Tom Sleigh Jack Spicer

A Duet Introduction Kevin McFadden Killing Him: A Radio Play A shopkeeper's story Bob Hicok Yehuda Amichai

Explaining It William Johnson Cook the Hell Out of 'Em W. S. Di Piero

Because He Was Flesh

The Roads Taken Haki Madhubuti

No Tiara, No Crown

Into the Abeyance Michael Hofmann

Finding Again the World Eleanor Wilner

Learning from Lexington Marjorie Perloff

The Soul Grown Refined Vivian Gornick

The Politics of Poetry David Orr

Letter to the Editor John Balaban

Letter to the Editor Joseph Bednarik

Letter to the Editor Michael Wiegers

Letter to the Editor Ankur Saha

Letter to the Editor Rod Riesco

Poetry Magazine

2008- Sept.

Articles

Ten Moons Sasha Dugdale Letter to the Editor Bruce Grant

Nether Letter to the Editor Kimiko Hahn What Is the Field? Leila Wilson Letter to the Editor Mitsuye Yamada Clary Atsuro Riley Letter to the Editor Afaa Michael Rest before you sleep Dionisio D. Weaver Martinez Letter to the Editor Joy Harjo Bait Goat Crocodile Tears Kay Ryan Letter to the Editor Eric Bourland

Gas Station Rest Room Letter to the Editor D. W. Cunningham 24/7 Alan Shapiro Letter to the Editor Andrew Epstein Iraqi Boy Elizabeth Arnold Letter to the Editor Gediminas Trimakas Dressing Down, 1962 Lesley Wheeler Letter to the Editor Nancy Flynn Arrival The X-Ray Heidy Steidlmayer Letter to the Editor Evan Jones

The Duffel Bag David Harsent Letter to the Editor Nicholas Bradley

What loves, takes away Eleanor Wilner Letter to the Editor Robin Winning

Barking Jim Harrison

Introduction Jean Hartley & Jim Orwin

Little Low Heavens Clive James

Four Takes D. H. Tracy

Letter to the Editor John Poch

Letter to the Editor Barnaby Thieme

Poetry Magazine

2008- October

Articles

Tell the Bees A Good Fish Derek Sheffield The So-called Singer of Nab Elegy for the Quagga "There's Something Haunting and Unreliable Narration Nihilistic About Your Hairdresser" Makris Is Fallen The Editors Stubbornly Zucchini Shofar was introduced to Small Moth in late 1946 or early Sarah Lindsay 1947. That winter Randall Jarrell, whom she had already briefly met, was in New How to Cook a Wolf Adrian Blevins York to begin work as the acting literary editor of . Planning a dinner Uncouplings for his literary friends, he invited both The Invisible Birds of Central America Bishop and Lowell. As she tells the story Craig Arnold in an unfinished draft of an essay found among her papers, "I was extremely shy Honorary Jew John Repp at the time and I had met very few poets. I was afraid of going to dinner with Appleblossom Jarrell and his wife, and even more Appleblossom afraid of meeting Lowell." Appleblossom Appleblossom Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell Appleblossom (Leaving Edo) Words in Air Eric Ekstrand The Controversy Hospital parking lot, April After Ken Burns Laura Kasischke Why Is the Great American Poem So Hard to Write? Jason Guriel courthouse steps D.A. Powell

In the Drink John Hennessy Letter to the Editor Isaac Pressnell

Left to Itself the Heart Could Almost Letter to the Editor John Steen Melt, Mend Snow Becoming Light by Morning Letter to the Editor Gregg Mosson Jill Osier Letter to the Editor Stephen Sturgeon Sad and Alone Maurice Manning

Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian respond: Peter Gizzi

Letter to the Editor Matthew Lucas

Letter to the Editor Daniel Picker

Letter to the Editor Marie Johnson

Letter to the Editor Susan O'brien

Poetry Magazine

2008- November

Articles

Soni Vortextique K. S. Ernst & Sheila E. Ernesto Cardenal and I Murphy La Francesa Visit to the Convalescent untitled (for Natalee and Jeremy) Dirty, Poorly Dressed derek beaulieu Palingenesis Roberto Bolaño The Disremembered Glossolalist Peter Ciccariello Our Valley alwaysendeavor On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Bob Dahlquist Eating Fish Eyes Hail Mary Szybist Mama Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Zeus to Juno Fiona Sampson haiku #62 Scott Helmes

Her from “Origins of Poetry” Joel Lipman The Chairs That No One Sits In Billy Collins toon tune gustave morin

A Start fallen jörg piringer Antiquity Calling Elaine Equi untitled Philip Gallo

Plaint in a Major Key Labile Michael Basinski Jorge Sánchez Literary Fame in the Time of Flame Murray Dreaming Wars Adam Kirsch Stephen Edgar Beyond Heaney? Carmine Starnino To a Wedding William Logan "Information, Thy Nemesis is Reverie" Ange Mlinko Visual Poetry Today Geof Huth Poetry, Politics, and Leanings-Left Robert Archambeau mIEKAL aND mi'kmaq book of the dead Letter to the Editor William Logan

Letter to the Editor Jay Robinson Letter to the Editor Mischa Willett

Letter to the Editor David Tinling

Letter to the Editor Paul J Healy

Letter to the Editor Loren Keller

Letter to the Editor Fraser Sutherland

Letter to the Editor Gertrude Rubin