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POETRY Magazine cover of November 2009 issue, featuring illustration "The Poet Takes a Walk" by Greg Clarke

November 2009

Greg Clarke, “The Poet Takes a Walk,” 2002
 
  • James Schuyler
  • Gottfried Benn
  • Eric Ekstrand
  • Chloe Honum
  • Joseph Spece
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Sweet Romanian Tongue

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They Are Human After All

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Translator’s Note: Five Poems by ​Gottfried Benn

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Table of Contents

POEMS
  • James Schuyler
    • Sweet Romanian Tongue
    • Light Night
    • Destitute Peru
    • Address
    • Poem (The day gets slowly started)
  • Gottfried Benn
    • They Are Human After All
    • The Young Hebbel
    • Jena
    • Static Poems
    • Gladioli
    • from “Late”
    • Finis Poloniae
    • What’s Bad
    • “Zeh was a pharmacist”
  • Michael Hofmann
    • Translator’s Note: Five Poems by ​Gottfried Benn
RUTH LILLY POETRY FELLOWS
  • Chloe Honum
    • Spring
    • Dress Rehearsal
  • Joseph Spece
    • Lascaux
    • Among Elks
  • Jeffrey Schultz
    • J. Finds in His Pocket Neither Change nor Small Bills
  • Malachi Black
    • Sifting in the Afternoon
    • This Gentle Surgery
THE POET TAKES A WALK
  • Peter Cole
    • Jerusalem
  • Kay Ryan
    • Marin County, Sort Of
  • W. S. Di Piero
    • San Francisco
  • Fanny Howe
    • Oxford
  • George Szirtes
    • W
  • A.E. Stallings
    • Athens: Peripatetic Fragments
Comment
  • A. F. Moritz
    • What Man Has Made of Man
Letters to the Editor
  • Stephen Yenser
    • Letter to the Editor
  • Michael Robbins
    • Michael Robbins Responds
  • Peter Lennon
    • Letter to the Editor
  • Jo Sarzotti
    • Letter to the Editor
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Gottfried Benn
  • Malachi Black
  • Peter Cole
  • W. S. Di Piero
  • Michael Hofmann
  • Chloe Honum
  • Fanny Howe
  • Peter Lennon
  • A. F. Moritz
  • Michael Robbins
  • Kay Ryan
  • Jo Sarzotti
  • Jeffrey Schultz
  • James Schuyler
  • Joseph Spece
  • A.E. Stallings
  • George Szirtes
  • Stephen Yenser
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