By: Claude McKay

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

By: Álvaro de Campos

“Something like people / Will continue to make things like poems…”

By: Ralph Milne Farley

Pink snow drifts in, / Dyed by the dying sun.

By: Elinor Wylie

“My soul, be not disturbed / By planetary war…”

By: Claude McKay

“Mine is the future grinding down to-day…”

By: Angela Morgan

“Hid within a lump of clay, / A light more terrible than day…”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“The heartfulness of moving machines!”

By: Hart Crane

“Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks, / A rip-tooth of the sky’s acetylene…”

By: Countee Cullen

“She will be young / When your last cracked and quivering note is sung.”

By: Claude McKay

“Darkly I gaze into the days ahead…”

By: Conrad Aiken

“I ascend from darkness / And depart on the winds of space for I know not where…”

By: Blaise Cendrars

“Shit is said in all corners of the universe…”

By: Langston Hughes

“Tomorrow, / I’ll be at the table…”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“An animal of irritated electricity…”

By: Fenton Johnson

“I am tired of building up somebody else’s civilization.”