Poetry

Poems After the Attack

Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ commemorative poem “The Names” in The New York Times
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s poem “9/11” in The Washington Post
“Poetry and Sept. 11: A Guided Anthology” by Robert Pinsky in Slate
“The Twin Word Towers” created from a collaborative crisis poem at the People’s Poetry Gathering site
“The Language of War and Peace,” special issue of Big Bridge
“Words To Comfort,” a selection of poems and photographs from the NYC benefit readings October 17, 2001 in Jacket 15
“American Terror, writings in the immediate aftermath,” special issue of Masthead
“Poems for the Time,” anthology collected by Alicia Ostriker in Moby Lives
“Poetry and Tragedy,” reactions & poems from the recent Laureates in USA Today
Four poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Marianne Moore, Carlos Drummond de Andrade & Czeslaw Milosz, collected by Robert Pinsky in Slate
“Auden on Bin Laden” by Eric McHenry in Slate

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