Poetry in Motion®

Kenneth Koch

A Big Clown-Face-Shaped Cloud

Thomas Lux

A Little Tooth

Mary Coleridge

A Moment

James Merrill

A Renewal

Lidia Torres

A Weakness for Boleros

Galway Kinnell

Blackberry Eating

Carl Sandburg

Choose

Francisco Segovia

Clarity of Silence (excerpt)

Elizabeth Bishop

Conversation

Adrienne Rich

Delta

Jack Spicer

from Radar

Antonieta Villamil

Green Shoes

Vera Pavlova

If there is something to desire

David St. John

I Know

B. H. Fairchild

Keats (excerpt)

Elizabeth Alexander

My Grandmother's New York Apartment

Frank O'Hara

My Heart

Elva Macias

Nostalgia

Manuel Ulacia

On the Beach

Jorge Carrera Andrade, translated by Joshua Beckman and Alejandro de Acosta

Palm Tree

Kay Ryan

Reverse Drama

Josephine Miles

Ride

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet (excerpt)

Seamus Heaney

Scaffolding

Amy Lowell

Shore Grass

Srikanth Reddy

Sonnet

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Barbara Guest

The Brown Vest

John Keats

The living hand, now warm and capable

Jean Valentine

The Poet's Poem

Stanley Kunitz

The Round (excerpt)

Lucille Clifton

whose side are you on?

Lorine Niedecker

Wilderness

Harryette Mullen

X-ray Vision

Lady Otomo No Sakanoe

You Say, "I Will Come"

E. E. Cummings

“somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” (excerpt)