By: Wen Yiduo

“An army train lugs its war cargo, screams as if alive.”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“Strike, / This is the howling world…”

By: Angela Weld Grimké

“The black hand plucks and plucks / At the bricks.”

By: Max Jacob

“Water gave place to fire, to fear, to unconsciousness…”

By: Johannes R. Becher

“We have bombs ready for the cars that come and go.”

By: Paul Zech

“No penitentiary cell clamps / in ice all thinking as firmly as this …”

By: Percy MacKaye

“This plunging, volant, land-amphibian…”

By: Carrie W. Clifford

“Altho no particle may stop or stay— / This Law immutable, you may not sway…”

By: Kochia Tseng

“The world already is no longer yours.”

By: Herman Hupfeld

“We get a trifle weary / with Mister Einsten’s theory…”

By: Georgia Douglas Johnson

“Not wholly this or that, / But wrought / Of alien bloods am I…”

By: Farfa

“the other was a real triangle”

By: C. Day Lewis

“Through space-time’s cold / Indifferent airs I strolled…”

By: Eric Temple Bell

“Am I a man, or less?”

By: Claude McKay

“Life still lingers, questioningly strange, / Timid and quivering, naked and alone…”