Poems about New York

The Immediate Need for Poetry
by Eli Siegel

Quintillions by Robert Clairmont (2005)
Introduction by Ellen Reiss

New York Begins Poetically: A Lecture by Eli Siegel
Reported by Barbara Buehler and John Stern

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Poems about New York

Eli Siegel	Somewhere This Local Stop, Sheridan Square And There Prevail Love Lurches Along Heaven for the Landlord: or, Forthwith Understands 'Tis Loveliness, Sir Discouraged People Ocean, Mr., Mrs. Blink Sunlight in Slush, in Puddles, and in Wet Municipal Surfaces; or, Miracle on Eighth Avenue below Fourteenth Street New York Is Of, in More Than One Way Hymn to Fourth Avenue Photography Includes Time and History, and New York Tea Transforms Lecture and Snow Sights
Martha Baird	Balzac in Bloomingdale's Man and Nature in New York and Kansas When The Gas Burner Lights
Ellen Reiss	Welcome Your Confusion as a Guest July is Relevantly Busy Heard New York Pigeons The Shadows, Black
Louis Dienes	Lunch Hour in New York Roller Coasting The Overcast Day Energy of New York Images Photography and the Actual World Cats Trains
Robert Clairmont	O There Were Big Red Buildings Somewhere in My Childhood Tall Buildings in Four O'Clock Streets Ocean Greyhounds These Ever Just So Six Million New York Hearts and Dorothy How Pretty Girls Are Mr. Allen I an Organism Here in Lower Six The Tan Suit Person and Importance in New York To Sylvia on Going Through the P.R.R. Hudson Tubes N.Y. Harbor: Sunday Evening Aged Millionaire Dies as Body Crashes Car And I will Be a Blackness on a Little Square of Gold Beautiful Long Blond Hair Legend
Sheldon Kranz	Pigeons and Men in Tight Blue Suits Schoolyard at Dusk
Anna Hempstead Branch	New York at Sunrise
Edna St.Vincent Millay	Recuerdo City Trees
Walt Whitman	Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Mannahatta
Hart Crane	To Brooklyn Bridge
Rebecca Fein	The "Fox" Sign on top of the Fox Building Fresh Falling Snow
Karen Van Outryve	The Red Sun