Poetry/Contemporary

Classical	Renaissance	Romanticism	Victorian	Modernist	Contemporary	AtO

Forbidden Fruit Picker, Wangechi Mutu, 2015.

After World War II.

Margaret Atwood

• “Circe, Mud Poems” (excerpt)

Gwendolyn Brooks

• “Primer For Blacks”
• “We Real Cool”

Constantine Cavafy

• “And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds”
• “Ithaka”

Lucille Clifton

• “homage to my hips”
• “seeker of visions”
• “won’t you celebrate with me”

Allen Ginsburg

• “New Democracy Wish List”

Audre Lord

• “Who Said It Was Simple”

Philip Larkin

• “The Mower”

Robert Lowell

• “Waking Early Sunday Morning”

Edna St. Vincent Millay

• “April”

Adrienne Rich

• “Diving Into the Wreck”

Carl Sandberg

• “Choose”

Patricia Smith

• “10-Year-Old Shot Three Times, but She’s Fine”

Mark Strand

• “Keeping Things Whole”
• “Eating Poetry”

Derek Walcott

• “Journey”