Poetry/Contemporary

Classical	Renaissance	Romanticism	Victorian	Modernist	Contemporary	AtO

Poetry 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”