In a Country by Larry Levis
My love and I are inventing a country, which we can... |
American History by Michael S. Harper
Those four black girls blown up... |
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear... |
America by Robert Creeley
America, you ode for reality!... |
A Poet Speaks from the Visitor's Gallery by Archibald MacLeish
Have Gentlemen perhaps forgotten this?... |
I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America... |
Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes
Let America be America again... |
Howl..., Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked... |
Patriotics by David Baker
Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy... |
On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land... |
From "The Congressional Library" by Amy Lowell
Where else in all America are we so symbolized... |
Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da
They say that you, a road builder... |
Identity Crisis by F. D. Reeve
He was urged to prepare for success... |
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds by Eleanor Lerman
This is what she says about Russia, in the year 2000, in... |
Exquisite Candidate by Denise Duhamel
I can promise you this: food in the White House... |
Exquisite Politics by Denise Duhamel
The perfect voter has a smile but no eyes... |
The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light... |
Patriotism by Sir Walter Scott
Breathes there the man with soul so dead... |