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First Line: The great moguls of gotham! Their proud purses
Last Line: Sleeps in the throttles of this ruthless three
Subject(s): "depressions, Economic;income Tax;money;social Classes;tammany Hall, New York City;tweed, William Marcy [boss] (1823-78);wealth;" Recessions;caste;riches;fortunes


34 BLUES, by CHARLEY PATTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ain't going to tell nobody : thirty-four have done for me
Last Line: Oh lord oh lord : let me see your brand new year
Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (mood); Blues (music); Depressions, Economic; Music And Musicians


534, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For ages you were rock, far below light
Last Line: Of those who speed your launching come to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Queen Mary (ship); Sea; Unemployment; Recessions; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean


A PRAYER FOR THE KING'S MAJESTY, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, whose mercy is our state
Last Line: With wisdom that can never end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Depressions, Economic; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Prayer; Religion; Recessions; Theology


AUNT JEWELL AS POWWOW PRINCESS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was aghast at what I saw
Last Line: Came down as a heavy rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): Aunt Jewell At Cahokia Mound
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); Depressions, Economic; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Scotland; Theosophy; Recessions


BAGPIPE MUSIC, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw
Last Line: But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Blavatsky, Helena P. (1831-1891); Depressions, Economic; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Scotland; Theosophy


BEHIND THE HILL, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember that afternoon when we first came to the place
Last Line: Crawled out on a rock, on the other side, and lay there quiet in the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


BIRCH CANOE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red men embraced my body's whiteness
Last Line: At home in the fish's fallen heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Identity; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


BREAD LINES, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good god! What keeps men up so late / upon this dripping night
Last Line: "some day they'll have to answer us, whether they will or no!"
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Hunger; Poverty; Recessions


BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The '49 dawn set me high on a roaring yellow tractor
Last Line: Being ground up with it, then or now
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): In Kansa
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear walt, %well, that was some weekend. Can't see why janey bell
Last Line: P.S. There's a note for janey bell enclosed. %don't open it
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We of the osage nation have come
Last Line: Gold and violet its humongous word, %vacancy, vacancy, %up to the dancing stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


COMMUNING BEFORE SUPERMARKETS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: -it's probably because we were always trying
Last Line: Turns into food for all %the different beings in their times
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


CRASH, by JUSTINE BUISSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was 1929, and I a child of seven
Last Line: Down the stairs to listen for the train
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic


DANCE OF DEATH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The mask. Look at the mask
Last Line: Over the faulty pain of new york
Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Parades; United States


DANCING WITH DINOSAURS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before we came to earth, %before the birds had come
Last Line: Now they will sing and we %are dancing with them, here
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


DE GUSTIBUS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To skin a skunk, skill is needed
Last Line: But even fried few will eat it
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


DEPRESSION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So proudly she came into the subway car
Subject(s): Unemployment; Disappointment; Poverty; Indifference; Depressions, Economic; Recessions


DEPRESSION, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A critical mass came over me
Last Line: Unprepared for the stillness that accompanies happiness
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic


DEPRESSION, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mattress floats in an ocean of newspapers
Last Line: Any moment I expect my daughters' heads
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic


DEPRESSION DAYS (1), by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He buys the dark
Subject(s): Chicanos; Depressions, Economic; Mexican Americans


DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents
Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life


DIRGE, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1;
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man; Dead, The; Dead, The; Recessions; Wagering; Betting


DIRGE, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1
Last Line: Dipper; bop, summer rain; %bong. Mr., bong, mr., bong, mr., bong
Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man


DOWN WITH MONEY EXCHANGE, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh cibernetic fairy
Last Line: Down with the silk-mart!
Subject(s): Business - Failures; Depressions, Economic; Labor And Laborers; Money; Sugar


DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Recessions; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete
Last Line: He flies so easy, when he sings
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


DUSTBOWL DAYS, by NICOLE S. PORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Handkerchief to nose, %I cross these dusty streets
Last Line: Grumble about the price of corn %and their souls
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic


EDEN, THEN AND NOW, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In '29 before the dust storms
Last Line: In fact, the same eden.
Subject(s): Corporate Downsizing; Depressions, Economic; Hunger; Recessions


EL SALVADOR!, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Paralyzed children staring %into the pulitzer prizes of our televising selves
Last Line: We look into and try to comprehend
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


FATHER, MOTHER, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Or an owl's
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Peru; Poverty; Wages


FORMING CHILD POEMS: SEVEN, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the summit, se of kinlichee
Last Line: Why I decided to leave it like that
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


FREE WHITE AND FIFTEEN, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the bullet hit, the horse keeled over dead
Last Line: We'd be at work next morning, cleaning kennels
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


GETTING ACROSS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hanging %out under the bridge
Last Line: Where he has passed his death
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


GIVEN, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This world to grow into, I know
Last Line: Glittering darkness that has no end
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


GOOD MANNERS, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's dangerous to walk
Last Line: With a name in your lips
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Politics; Social Protest


GREYHOUND COURSING TRIALS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Osage was coursing against this fawn greyhound
Last Line: Won it!' till he saw, as I turned, the ruined foot
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


HELLBABIES, by HORACE GREGORY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Hellbabies sitting in speakeasies
Last Line: Come home, there will be sweet hell tonight. %alyays ready
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic


INDIAN COUNTRY: THAT DARK ROMANTIC CHASM, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They came from england, sweden, france, 'america'
Last Line: A gentle earth, %with flowers %yet once more
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


JETLINER FROM ANGEL CITY, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earthborn of white %titanium sand in magnesium shell from
Last Line: Your silver dove returning to the earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


LIQUID CRYSTAL THOUGHTS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking through windshields at sixty-three
Last Line: All venice, titian's colors and the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Aging; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Vision


LOOKING BEFORE AND AFTER, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the new pond-dam a trickle
Last Line: Butterfly of shadows tastes %sweet light again
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


MAKING A NAME, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The authors of this story are
Last Line: With real live indians, this time?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


MY RIGHT HAND DON'T LEAVE ME NO MORE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you were drunk, you could always whip joe louis
Last Line: And did not help. You died bringing in wood for the fire
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


NOTHING TO SPARE, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hungry children cry for bread, and I
Last Line: And gas.
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Depressions, Economic; Hunger; Money; Poverty; Recessions


O HADA CIBERNETICA: 15, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father, mother, %how much you struggled
Last Line: The face of an elm %or an owl's
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Humanity; Wages


OBBLIGATO, by BRUCE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late august was a pressure drop
Last Line: Made in the ratio %of bruise for bruise
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Grief


ON A DEPRESSION BREAD-LINE PHOTO BY DOROTHEA LANGE, by DAN STRYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had she hidden there, above them, on a balcony?
Last Line: Grief to something bold and strange-will never leave me
Variant Title(s): On A Depression Breadline Photo By Dorothea Lang
Subject(s): Bread; Depressions, Economic; Photography And Photographers


ON THE PLANET OF BLUE-EYED CATS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some moons of jupiter are %as big as earth almost
Last Line: To move, to learn a little of %what beings mean
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


PAINT AND FEATHERS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into a star %you have cast yourself
Last Line: To where we hear you laughing
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


PANTOUM OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our lives avoided tragedy
Last Line: And there is no plot in that; it is devoid of poetry
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Life; Recessions


PARADING WITH THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apache, omaha, osage, choctaw, comanche, cherokee, oglala, micmac
Last Line: Absence of buffalo here in the %gateway to the west, st louis
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): Parading With The V.f.w
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Depressions, Economic; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


POVERTY, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is my fate to be
Last Line: Of jewels and tapestry.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Money; Poverty; Recessions


PRAYER, OR NOSTALGIA FOR HEAVEN, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Please, just give me a map, and I'll follow it.
Last Line: On all of us, on each earth-bound beauty's sleeping cheek
Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man


PURE COUNTRY, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pick and shovel dug the privy-hole square
Last Line: And we moved the privy on out %above its new-dug hole
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


RECESSION, by RICHARD COLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The nikkei's dropped over 30 per cent
Last Line: Trying not to wake him %as I say goodbye
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic


SELF-AUTOPSY OF A CRAZED MAN, by WILLIAM JAMES KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was living through a breakdown
Last Line: Too many others to bleed
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Insanity; Psychoanalysis


SKINS AS OLD TESTAMENT, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonder who first slid in %to use another creature's skin
Last Line: Within the woman %came alive
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SOLILOQUY, by FREDERICK E. LAIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have seen tall chimneys without smoke
Last Line: Of godly men that somehow it shall rain.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Drought; Prairies; Recessions; Plains


SONG THAT WE STILL SING, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the way from oklahoma up to the sun dance
Last Line: We recognized that song. It's one %that we still sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SONGS OF THE WINE-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in the sapphire ocean
Last Line: The hummingbird's, the humpback whales, %a neutron star, a human soul?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Hummingbirds; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SPECULATION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A girl we didn't actually know
Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Girls; Sisters; Dead, The; Recessions


SPECULATION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A girl we didn't actually know
Last Line: Always made her feel glamorous
Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Girls; Sisters


SPIRITUALITY 101: SNAKEROOT, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Used to pick the dead coneflowers
Last Line: In our suburbs is ever used for medicine
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SPIRITUALITY 102: CAKES AND ALE, BREAD AND WINE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cakes and ale, bread and wine
Last Line: Many thanks, and the bookstore's thataway.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE DOG, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night before my uncle carter got shot
Last Line: He would have made a perfect suburban mayor - %or maybe, manager for some liquor chain
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Uncles


SWAN'S SONG, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Garbed in silence I go on earth
Last Line: The world's wide waters, as a wayfaring soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


THAT LIGHTNING'S HARD TO CLIMB, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: - struck down? %good lord, we'd always be
Last Line: Now mantle where the %living tree once stood
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


THE DEPRESSION, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A critical mass came over me
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Recessions


THE POET'S TERROR AT THE BALIFFS OF EXETER, FR. FREEDOM: A POEM, by ANDREW BRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: While perils imminent by slender thread
Last Line: Exhaust, and tide of every art'ry frore.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Milton, John (1608-1674); Recessions


THE POOR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Give them your silver, let the poor
Last Line: Worth twice their weight in gold?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Poverty; Recessions


THE POOR, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot give the poor a cent,' remarks
Last Line: "of these outlandish times."
Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Depressions, Economic; Poverty; Recessions


TO THE MUSE, IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That aganippe well was nice, it hit the spot
Last Line: Drink from our bare skin: %good water %fits every mouth
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


TOOLS, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dad's old man was a carpenter
Last Line: And permanent jet black ink
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Fathers; Labor And Laborers; Tools


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. DEEP BELOW DEEP, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep below deep
Last Line: I knew him for many months, but there was no thaw or change to speak of.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Pain; Youth; Recessions; Suffering; Misery


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She lies, whom money has killed, and the greed of money
Last Line: Shall be changed.
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Politics & Government; Poverty; Recessions


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I walked restless and despondent through the gloomy city
Last Line: Little child.
Subject(s): Capitalism; Democracy; Depressions, Economic; Environment; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Smoke; Recessions; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Work; Workers


TRINITY-RIDDLE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I spread, descending a samite of stars
Last Line: To wear till dawn night-diamonds, till dusk the jewel of time
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WALKING WITH FRIENDS DOWN LARIGILL AND DIBADAL, ON THE ISLE OF SKYE, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming down from the watershed's pools %we drank first at the source
Last Line: Back into the heart %of sunlight and falling rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WAR ECONOMY, by JOHN GILGUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a corner of the universe
Last Line: Because gas is rationed
Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Soldiers; War


WAZHAZHE GRANDMOTHER, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They chose their allotted land
Last Line: To live in their first home
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Variant Title(s): They Chose Their Allotted Lan
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WE WERE SEVEN, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: #name?
Last Line: I keep close watch on all the trees we have
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WHERE THE MUSES HAUNT, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atop the opera garnier in paris there's
Last Line: Went on with their gathering from the pale blue %rosemary and from thyme
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians


WILL COGAN'S MAP, by TOM DOMEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mine are the drills
Last Line: Like dust in my skull
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; North Dakota; Prairies; Water Supply; Wells


WINNING THE DUST BOWL, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a reaching up %into the dusty leaves after
Last Line: And there are many friends of the huntington who surely do
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Food And Eating; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Survival