By: Aleksei Kruchenykh

“It’s an armored fortress / An excavator of crowds. / The Air-Strike!”

By: Louis Zukofsky

“And in Haiti / Mars / Bloody / Tinkered with the other
Stars.”

By: Mina Loy

“One elastic tentacle of intuition / To quiver among the stars…”

By: James T. Franklin

“Plain did seem the merry race / Of myriad planets thrown in space…”

By: G.K. Chesterton

“What poet-race / Shot such cyclopean arches at the stars?”

By: Robinson Jeffers

“We have built the great cities; now / There is no escape…”

By: Ambrose Bierce

“One thousand years I slept beneath the sod…”

By: Don Marquis

“A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things…”

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.”