Poetry in Motion®

'Hope' is the thing with feathers

by Emily Dickinson

A Chorus of Horizontals (excerpt)

by Maureen Seaton

Adolescence--I

by Rita Dove

After Calling

by Carlos Cumpian

A Piece of the Storm

by Mark Strand

Autumn Leaves

by Marilyn Chin

Birth

by Louise Erdrich

Blackberry Eating

by Galway Kinnell

Bloodlines

by Mark Perlberg

Blues

by Elizabeth Alexander

Books Feed and Cure and Chortle and Collide

by Gwendolyn Brooks

Coal (excerpt)

by Audre Lorde

Days of Our Years

by John Frederick Nims

Eclogue

by Michael Anania

El Chicle

by Ana Castillo

First Light

by Jean Valentine

Heat

by H. D.

Heavy Tells a Story (excerpt)

by Luis J. Rodriguez

Hysteria

by Susan Hahn

I Ask My Mother to Sing

by Li-Young Lee

In February (excerpt)

by Ralph J. Mills

Let there be new flowering

by Lucille Clifton

Luck

by Langston Hughes

Magic Words

by Edward Field

Mapmaker (excerpt)

by Beatriz Badikian

Of Royal Issue (excerpt)

by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Please Give This Seat to an Elderly or Disabled Person

by Nina Cassian

Riding on a Railroad Train (excerpt)

by Ogden Nash

rogers park

by Quraysh Ali Lansana

Romeo and Juliet (excerpt)

by William Shakespeare

Say Uncle

by Kay Ryan

Shelela-na-Gig

by Robin Robertson

Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among Them Nora and Henry III)

by Gwendolyn Brooks

Thank You, My Dear

by Sappho

The Armful

by Robert Frost

The Cure

by James McManus

The Flower On

by Mark Turcotte

The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (What the little girl said)

by Vachel Lindsay

The moonless night

by Rosellen Brown

The Moon with Its Cargo of Bullion (excerpt)

by Reginald Shepherd

The Potter's Wheel

by Calvin Forbes

This is Just to Say

by William Carlos Williams

Those Winter Sundays

by Robert Hayden

To the Infinite Power (excerpt)

by Alane Rollings

Two Haiku

by Kobayashi Issa

Two Uncertainties

by Paul Hoover

Variación / Variations

by Federico García Lorca

Walking to School, 1964

by David Wojahn

Wall

by Gabriela Mistral

We Real Cool

by Gwendolyn Brooks

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

by Walt Whitman

White Towels

by Richard Jones

Who

by Jane Kenyon

Wild Orchids

by Katha Pollit

Wind Drunk Women

by Cin Salach

Window

by Carl Sandburg

You Called Me Corazón

by Sandra Cisneros

You Say, "I Will Come"

by Lady Otomo No Sakanoe

You travel a path on paper

by Fanny Howe