By: Lola Ridge

“They think they have tamed you, workers — / Beaten you to a tool”

By: Leslie Pinckney Hill

“Faint not, O brothers, if the forward way / Must lie through fire and famine, death and blood.”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“Compound eyes / Declare war towards darkness…”

By: Evelyn Scott

“Tentacles thrust imperceptibly into the future…”

By: Mykola Bazhan

“Zurma swarm, fully bleak / will hit hard on the armor of paunches…”

By: Harriet Monroe

“I sailed sun-high / While the world went by.”

By: Zora Neale Hurston

“None may lag / When star dust hides the earth.”

By: Babette Deutsch

“His life was strangely hedged about / By three…”

By: E. E. Cummings

“having / thoroughly oiled the universal / joint tested my gas…”

By: Julia Boynton Green

“A distant humming in the sky…”

By: Evelyn Scott

“Something monstrous and horrible, / A passion without any master…”

By: William Stanley Braithwaite

“A breath of the infinite poise, where space and time are spun…”

By: Olaf Stapledon

“Justifying the cosmic enterprise for ever…”

By: Herbert Read

“shade yourself / against electric signs…”

By: Leland S. Copeland

“Smaller you grew and dimmer yet / As eons dawned and millennia set…”