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poems previously appearing in Poetry in Motion® New York City
Sherman Alexie, Crazy Horse Speaks (excerpt)
A.R. Ammons, Reflective
Anonymous, Magic Words (translated by Edward Field)
Anonymous, The Song of Solomon
Anonymous, Western Wind
John Ashbery, The Painter (excerpt)
Margaret Atwood, Variation on the Word 'Sleep'
W.H. Auden, Oh Tell Me the Truth About Love (excerpt)
Elizabeth Bishop, Casabianca
William Blake, The Tyger
Eavan Boland, Ceres Looks at the Morning (excerpt)
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Kamau Brathwaite, Veridian (excerpt)
Gwendolyn Brooks, Speech to the Young
Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose (excerpt)
Lord Byron, George Gordon, So We'll Go No More A Roving
Hayden Carruth, Lilac Time
Marilyn Chin, Autumn Leaves
Chu Chen Po, Hedgehog (translated by Kenneth Rexroth)
Sandra Cisneros, You Called Me Corazón
Amy Clampitt, Grasmere (excerpt)
Lucille Clifton, let there be new flowering
Billy Collins, Hunger
Gregory Corso, Marriage
Stephen Crane, A Man Said to the Universe
Robert Creeley, For Friendship
Robert Creeley, Return
E.E. Cummings, love is a place
Emily Dickinson, Hope is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson, I Stepped from Plank to Plank
Nuala Ni Dhomnaill, Carnival (excerpt) (translated by Paul Muldoon)
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), Heat
Stephen Dunn, Happiness
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (excerpt)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sandinista Avioncitos
Robert Frost, The Armful
Dana Gioia, Daily Horoscope (excerpt)
Louise Glück, First Memory
Lorna Goodison, Bed of Mint (excerpt)
Donald Hall, Sew
Thomas Hardy, A Broken Appointment
Joy Harjo, Emergence (excerpt)
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Linda Hogan, The Hands
John Hollander, Sent on a Sheet of Paper
Langston Hughes, Luck
David Ignatow, The Bagel
Kobayashi Issa, Two Haiku
Laura (Riding) Jackson, Take Hands
Josephine Jacobsen, Of Pairs (excerpt)
Kathleen Jamie, The Blue Boat (excerpt)
Juan Ramon Jimenez, To the Bridge of Love (translated by James Wright)
Donald Justice, Men at Forty (excerpt)
John Keats, To Autumn (excerpt)
Galway Kinnell, Blackberry Eating
Stanley Kunitz, The Round
Karla Kuskin, The Question
Li-Young Lee, I Ask My Mother to Sing
Denise Levertov, Suspended
Vachel Lindsay, The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky
Federico Garcia Lorca, Variacion/Variations
Audre Lorde, Coal
Amy Lowell, The Taxi
Mina Loy, Untitled (excerpt)
William Matthews, Misgivings
James Merrill, A Renewal
W.S. Merwin, Separation
W.S. Merwin, Utterance
Czeslaw Milosz, Encounter
Gabriel Mistral, Wall
Paul Muldoon, Sonogram
Nino Nikolov, Confusion (translated by Ewald Osers)
Ogden Nash, Old Men
Frank O'Hara, My Heart
Sharon Olds, Primitive
Mary Oliver, The Loon on Oak Pond Road
Lady Otomo No Sahanoe, You Say 'I Will Come'
Alicia Partnoy, Communicacion/Communication
Linda Pastan, Aspects of Eve
Octavio Paz, Hermandad/Brotherhood
Sylvia Plath, I Am Vertical (excerpt)
Walter Raleigh, Passionate Man's Pilgrimage
Kenneth Rexroth, The Love Poems of Marichiko (excerpt)
Charles Reznikoff, If There is a Scheme
Adrienne Rich, Delta
Theodore Roethke, The Sloth
Jelaluddin Rumi, Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
Grace Schulman, Lost Unity (excerpt)
Anne Sexton, An Obsessive Combination of Ontological Inscape
William Shakespeare, Macbeth Act v, scene v
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (excerpt)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, To ———
Charles Simic, Watch Repair (excerpt)
Hal Sirowitz, I Finally Managed to Speak to Her
Cathy Song, Lost Sister (excerpt)
Elizabeth Spires, 0°
Gertrude Stein, The World is Round
Wallace Stevens, Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole
May Swenson, Riding the A
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
Tomas Tranströmer, Espresso
John Updike, Upon Shaving Off One's Beard
Mona Van Duyn, The Talker
Margaret Walker, Lineage
Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (excerpt)
William Carlos Williams, To a Poor Old Woman
William Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up
Elinor Wylie, Let No Charitable Hope
W.B. Yeats, When You are Old
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