Poetry Explorer

Search Classic and Contemporary Poetry

Search Results

Back to search

Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Searching...
Subject: MINGUS, CHARLES (1922-1979)
Matches Found: 20

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER MINGUS, by RONALD ERNEST OVERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We go to macy's &
Last Line: No song %to call us back
Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)


CHARLES MINGUS, HURRAH!: POEM, by SEBASTIAN CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where I'm at! Where you're at!
Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)


COPACETIC MINGUS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heartstring. Blessed wood
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)


HOTEL MADDEN POEMS, SELS., by PAUL PINES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mingus at the five spot
Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)


INTO THIS TIME, by JAYNE CORTEZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The melancholy buttocks of dawn
Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians


MINGUS, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: String-chewing bass players
Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)


MINGUS, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: String-chewing bass players
Last Line: Crash from foggy yesterday %to the light %of imaginary night
Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)


MINGUS AND MCLEAN, by JOHN REPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year I turned three, jackie mclean and charles mingus
Last Line: Play that menthol alto, jackie, so the mountainous one can holler
Subject(s): Jazz; Mclean, Jackie; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians


MINGUS AT DIASPORA, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You could say, I suppose, that he ate his way out
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Food & Eating


MINGUS AT THE HALF NOTE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two dozen bars or so into better get it
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Pubs; Taverns; Saloons


MINGUS AT THE HALF NOTE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two dozen bars or so into better get it
Last Line: For now, he kick-starts the band: %'one, two, one tow three four.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)


MINGUS AT THE SHOWPLACE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music & Musicians; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons


MINGUS AT THE SHOWPLACE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen
Last Line: He explained, and the band played on
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians


MINGUS MEMORY, by LORENZO THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Test test
Last Line: His music stand %'heavy!' %'you hear me now, huh' %and you know %it was only that long
Subject(s): Mingus, Charles (1922-1979)


MY JAZZ: 2, by JEAN-PAUL AUXEMERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: (tells it like
Last Line: Tell it like you know tell it like it frees
Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians; Music, Popular


RECOUNTING OF GODS, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My own history bores me
Last Line: Howls at the audience of will, %in the face of beauty
Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)


SITTING ON OTHER PEOPLE'S CARS, by PAUL BEATTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This mingus cd %reminds you of me
Last Line: That im just now hearin - still give me the chills
Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians


THREE OF FOUR SHADES OF BLUE, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These days in europe no one is safe
Last Line: Move to mexico before the next night rain
Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians; Terrorism


THREE OF FOUR SHADES OF BLUE (2), by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stress of gijon are wider in the dark
Last Line: Jazz club like a recently divorced tourist
Subject(s): Jazz; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); Music And Musicians


TONIGHT AT NOON (FOR CHARLES MINGUS AND THE CLAYTON SQUARES), by ADRIAN HENRI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight at noon %supermarkets will advertise 3d extra on everything
Last Line: You will tell me you love me %tonight at noon
Subject(s): Holidays; Mingus, Charles (1922-1979); New Year