By: Lola Ridge

“A thin black piston flying, / One with her machine.”

By: Pierre Drieu de La Rochelle

“The lines of the sphere are sensitive…”

By: John Peale Bishop

“We did not know the end was coming: nor why / It came…”

By: Zhimo Xu

“All its trust in two narrow lines, some kind of rails…”

By: Georg Heym

“Comets with their fiery trails / Creep threateningly about…”

By: Amy Lowell

“Careening and circling,/Over the dying/Of England.”

By: Walter Everette Hawkins

“I break the limbs of idols / And smash the traditions of men.”

By: Carrie W. Clifford

“Opportunities like bursting bombs / Shall blast the walls that limit us Today.”

By: Maurice N. Corbett

“Let blacks who have a settled will / To emigrate, go to Brazil…”

By: Mikhail Gerasimov

“New eyes are hatched to seize the world.”

By: Kurt Heynicke

“I am orbit in the universe…”

By: Mykola Bazhan

“red squadrons and crimson Fokkers will spread / the steely news of the revolution.”

By: Edward Silvera

“We must build stronger altars / To the God of skyscrapers.”

By: Angela Morgan

“From the course where Aldebaran runs / I will summon the suns.”

By: Lola Ridge

“Mighty converters torn from their axes…”