Poetry in Motion: 100 Poems from the Subways and Buses

This rich gathering emanates from the immensely popular placards displayed in the subways and buses of New York City. Starting in October 1992, when Poetry in Motion first appeared, and continuing through August 1997, here are the first hundred poems of the program. The selections, ranging from Sappho to Sylvia Plath, from W. H. Auden to the ninth~-century Chinese poet Chu Chen Po, were carefully chosen, after hundreds of hours of reading by the three dedicated editors Molly Peacock, Elise Paschen, and Neil Neches.

Wall by Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
To My Love, Combing Her Hair by Yehuda Amichai
Reflective by Archie Randolph Ammons
I Imagine Angels by Guillaume Apollinaire
Transit by Guillaume Apollinaire
Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love by Wystan Hugh Auden
2: 8-13 King James Bible (1611) by Bible
Casabianca by Elizabeth Bishop
Cartography by Louise Bogan
To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
Sir, You Are Tough by Joseph Brodsky
Speech To The Young. Speech To The Progress-toward by Gwendolyn Brooks
Please Give This Seat To An Elderly Or Disabled Person by Nina Cassian
As Much As You Can (1) by Constantine P. Cavafy
Autumn Leaves by Marilyn Mei Ling Chin
Hedgehog by Chu Chen Po
You Called Me Corazon by Sandra Cisneros
Grasmere by Amy Clampitt
Let There Be New Flowering by Lucille Clifton
When She Introduces Me To Her Parents by Gregory Corso
War Is Kind: 21 by Stephen Crane
For Friendship by Robert Creeley
Revival by Steve Crow
No Thanks: 58 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Middle Of The Journey by Dante Alighieri
Hope (1) by Emily Dickinson
Heat by Hilda Doolittle
Adolescence: 1 by Rita Dove
Happiness by Stephen Elliott Dunn
Let Us Go Then by Thomas Stearns Eliot
Birth by Louise Erdrich
Sandinista Avioncitos by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Armful by Robert Frost
I Stop Writing The Poem by Tess Gallagher
Variations by Federico Garcia Lorca
Sad Trumpeter by Allen Ginsberg
Winter Poem by Yolande Cornelia Giovanni
First Memory by Louise Gluck
Along The Hard Crest Of The Snowdrift by Anna Adreyevna Gorenko
Jamesian by Thomson William Gunn
We'll Have Manhattan by Lorenz Milton Hart
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Earl Hayden
Mother Of The Groom by Seamus Heaney
I Am Singing The Cold Rain by Lance Henson
Luck by James Langston Hughes
The Bagel by David Ignatow
Season Of Mists And Mellow Fruitfulness by John Keats
Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell
Don't Worry, Spiders by Kobayashi Issa
Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
The Round by Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
The Question by Karla Kuskin
Days by Philip Larkin
Suspended by Denise Levertov
The Moon's The North Wind's Cooky (what The Little Girl Said) by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
Love Is A Word, Another Kind Of Open by Audre Lorde
A Renewal by James Ingram Merrill
Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay
We Were Very Tired, We Were Very Merry by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz
Precautions by Eugenio Montale
What Is Our Innocence by Marianne Moore
Summer by Walter Dean Myers
Luxury Ships by Ogden Nash
My Heart by Frank O'hara
You Say, 'i Will Come' by Otomo Of Sakanoe
Unfortunate Coincidence by Dorothy Parker
Aspects Of Eve by Linda Pastan
Brotherhood [hermandad] by Octavio Paz
But I Would Rather Be Horizontal by Sylvia Plath
Quiet (2) by Walter Raleigh
4. by Kenneth Rexroth
Ode To The Cat by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Jerusalem The Golden (66) by Charles Reznikoff
Delta by Adrienne Cecile Rich
Take Hands by Laura Riding
The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Sloth by Theodore Roethke
Some Go Local by Muriel Rukeyser
Window by Carl Sandburg
Thank You, My Dear by Sappho
The Mind Is An Ancient And Famous Capital by Delmore Schwartz
An Obsessive Combination Of Ontological Inscape ... by Anne Sexton
Act Iii, Scene Ii by William Shakespeare
Listen To The Mustn'ts by Shelby Silverstein
In China %even The Peasants by Cathy Song
Lines 879-886 by Sophocles
First Grade by William Edgar Stafford
Snowy Mountains by Wallace Stevens
Wheels %and Rails by May Swenson
Four In The Morning by Wislawa Szymborska
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Magic Words by Anonymous
Western Wind (1) by Anonymous
The Talker by Mona Van Duyn
Star by Derek Walcott
1. by Walt Whitman
To A Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
Let No Charitable Hope by Elinor Wylie
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®