Mark Morris Dance Group | National Poetry Month with Mark Morris

National Poetry Month with Mark Morris

In honor of National Poetry Month, Mark Morris will share a variety of brief poems (well-known and lesser-known) throughout the month. See below to explore Morris’s selections. Please click on the title to read the full poem. New poems will be added every few days.

I encourage people to look into the poets and their longer works. – Mark Morris

^{Last updated April 27}

Today
by Billy Collins

Poem [“Lana Turner has collapsed!”]
by Frank O’Hara

Binsey Poplars
by Gerard Manley Hopkins

NOTE
by Fernando Pessoa

To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year
by Phillis Wheatley

Freedom
by Rabindranath Tagore

Undeserved Sweetness
by Ben Okri

21
by Gertrude Stein

Ovid in the Third Reich
by Geoffrey Hill

Waving Goodbye
by Gerald Stern