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Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and ...

by Irene Dailey & Martin Donegan

54 SONGS

Jan 1965

Robert Frost: For John F. Kennedy, His Inauguration

Robert Frost: The Gift Outright

Cynthia Ozick: Footnote to Lord Action

Florence Victor: Berlin Crisis

George Hitchcock: Mr. Kennedy Proposes to Pacify the Caribbeans

Jonathan Williams: Davenport Gap

Charles Wright: November 22, 1963

Richard O'Connell: Nekros

Chana Faerstein: Bulletin

Gwendolyn Brooks: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

David Ignatow: Before the Sabbath

Josephine Miles: Frontier

Donald Hall: Spider Head

Dorothy Gilbert: At the Brooklyn Docks

Richard Hugo: Kennedy Ucciso

G.S. Fraser: Instead of an Elegy

Michael Goldman: The Spontaneous Man, The Gifted Assassin

William Butler: November 25, 1963

John Berryman: Formal Elegy

Anselm Hollo: Until Death Do Us Part

Harvey Shapiro: National Cold Storage Company

Thomas Whitbread: November 25, 1963

Marjorie Mir: Four Days in November

Richard Barker: Night of the President's Funeral

X.J. Kennedy: Down in Dallas

George Cuomo: The Man of My Dreams

Ruth Landshoff Yorck: I M J F K

Lorenzo Thomas: Not That Hurried Grief

Robert Hazel: Guard of Honor

Jack Marshall: Elegy for the New Year

Howard Moss: Traction

Robert Watson: Lines for a President

Gray Burr: A Death Before Killing

Richard Frost: On Not Writing an Elegy

Jerome G. Rothenberg: Cortège

William Inman: Jacqueline

Marvin Solomon: Sonnet for John-John

H.L. Mountzoures: Three Nights of Mourning: John F. Kennedy

Richard Eberhart: The Spirit of Poetry Speaks

Raymond Roseliep: For John Kennedy, Jr.

Oscar Mandel: We Who Do Not Grieve In Silence

Alan Ansen: The Death of Nearchus

W.H. Auden: Elegy for JFK

Robert Sward: Five Poems for JFK

Edward Pols: Untitled

Barbara Guest: Verba in Memoriam

Neil Myers: Kennedy Poem

Gregory Corso: Lines Written Nov. 22, 23 - 1963

Carol Bergé: Pavane for the White Queen

Philip Booth: Thanksgiving 1963