Poetry

Pulitzer Prize Winners in Poetry

Poet Laureates

Alliteration

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Walt Whitman

François Villon

Traditional Epic Song of Egypt

Homer’s Iliad

Folk Song of Estonia

W. B. Yeats Reading

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens Award

Iambic Pentameter

Courtly Love

Bashō’s Poetry

African Praise Poetry

T. S. Eliot

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Forward Poetry Prizes

Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow”

Denise Levertov Reading

Gertrude Stein

Marianne Moore

Langston Hughes, “Harlem”

Charles Simic Reading

Sherman Alexie

Brooks’s “We Real Cool”

Amiri Baraka

Derek Walcott

Muriel Rukeyser Reading

Allen Ginsberg’s Howl

Excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s There’s No Forgetting (Sonata)

Bollingen Prize in Poetry