Stephen Jonas, Invocation

Anonymous, I Have a Yong Suster

Sonia Sanchez, On Seeing a Pacifist Burn

Frank O'Hara, Poem [Lana Turner Has Collapsed]

Linton Kwesi Johnson, Di Great Insohreckshan

Hope Mirrlees, beginning of PARIS: A POEM

Bernadette Mayer, [Sonnet]

Denise Levertov, Snail

John Wieners, In Public

Langston Hughes, Theme for English B

Gertrude Stein, the beginning of TENDER BUTTONS

From Tender Buttons (1914).

William Blake, The Sick Rose

HD, Sea Rose