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		Poems about New York
		A Man Meets a Woman in the Street by Randall Jarrell

		City That Does Not Sleep by Federico García Lorca

		Cityscape 1 by Pablo Medina

		In the Village by Derek Walcott

		Making Shelves by D. Nurkse

		Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara

		Nothing Stays Put by Amy Clampitt

		Old Coat by Liam Rector

		Public Transportation by Elaine Sexton

		Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale

		The Lower East Side of Manhattan by Victor Hernández Cruz

		The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

		The Tropics of New York by Claude McKay

		To Brooklyn Bridge by Hart Crane

New York Notes
by Harvey Shapiro

1. Caught on a side street in heavy traffic, I said to the cabbie, I should have walked. He replied, I should have been a doctor. 2. When can I get on the 11:33 I ask the guy in the information booth at the Atlantic Avenue Station. When they open the doors, he says. I am home among my people.

From How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems by Harvey Shapiro, published by Wesleyan University Press. Copyright © 2001 by Harvey Shapiro. Used with permission. All rights reserved.