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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FILM, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strangely like a man
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


A FILM FROM THE SIXTIES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This adult male. This person on earth.
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


A SERENE HEART AT THE MOVIES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She strode to her car and turned the key and
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Car Bombs; Movies; Cinema


ACTION MOVIE STUNT-EXTRA THERAPY GROUP, by JOSH BELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our career ambition is to die cursing in a final scene of cathartic come-uppanc
Last Line: Of occluding dust that our bodies are the best of
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


AFTER A MOVIE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last small credits fade
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Imagination; Movies; Cinema; Fancy


AFTER MOVIES, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stairs would lead
Last Line: Of something burning
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


AGAINST THE FALSE MAGICIANS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poem must not charm us like a film [or, play]
Last Line: The rituals of our humanity
Subject(s): Humanity; Lies; Magic; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


AMBER ALERT, by JORDAN DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Having a child changes you. For example,
Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Steven Spielberg (b. 1946); Childhood; Movies; Cinema


AN AMERICAN IN HOLLYWOOD, by FRANK BIDART            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


AN IRREGULAR SUPPLICATORY ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMIES, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye learned wights, who all the heights
Last Line: That arcanum -- perpetual motion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lectures; Perpetual Motion; Scholarship & Scholars; Science; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Scientists


APOLLO 13' STARRING TOM HANKS, by DANIEL BOSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lift-off's gift is a canaveral aurora
Last Line: Our canaveral auroras and lift-off gifts
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


ARS POETICA: OR: WHO LIVES IN THE IVORY TOWER?, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps you'd like a marching song for the embattled proletariat ...
Last Line: Your feet are muddy, you son-of-a-bitch, get out of our ivory tower
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Poetry & Poets; South Sea Islands; Movies; Cinema


AT A MOVIE THEATRE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How well he spoke who coined the phrase
Last Line: Of shadow, cast upon a screen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


AT A PRIVATE SHOWING IN 1982, by MAXINE W. KUMIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This loving attention to the details
Last Line: And skulk out on this spring night %together, unsafe on capitol hill
Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Pictures


AT THE MOVIE: VIRGINIA, 1956, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is how it was:
Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Motion Pictures; Youth; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.); Movies; Cinema


AT THE MOVIES, by ROBERT FUNGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If life were a movie
Last Line: The credits %rolling %and all we'd hear is the music
Subject(s): Life; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters


AT THE MOVIES, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They swing across the screen in brave array
Last Line: Then I remember, and my heart grows cold!
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women And War; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War


AT THE PICTURE-SHOW, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits with eyes intent upon the screen
Last Line: But all the heroes have some trick of his. . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


AVA GARDNER AFTER CHRISTMAS, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold air rushing under door
Last Line: Browsing: a semi-contented mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Motion Pictures; Stars


AVE MARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mothers of america
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures; Work; Workers; Movies; Cinema


AVE MARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mothers of america
Last Line: Movies you wouldn't let them see when they were young
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures


BIG' STARRING TOM HANKS, by DANIEL BOSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a magic kingdom. We must watch, not worry
Last Line: On the disney channel. Is that good news? %you're hot as hansel. Have an organge juice
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


BLACK NARCISSUS, THE MOVIE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadow of the bell
Last Line: On squat gray donkeys.
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


BLINDED FILM CRITIC, by J. D. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dark used to mean anticipation
Last Line: Looking to make sense of it
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


BLUE ANGEL, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marlene dietrich is singing a lament
Last Line: But not till I have found a man %to occupy my mind
Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Motion Pictures


BLUE MOVIE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no cause for love in such a script
Last Line: The disassembled gestures of the dead
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pornography; Movies; Cinema


BLUE MOVIE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no cause for love in such a script
Last Line: The disassembled gestures of the dead
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pornography


BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, by EDWARD DORN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The windblown scream of the siren
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The windblown scream of the siren
Last Line: Who says perpetual motion is unattainable
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


BRESSON'S MOVIES, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A movie of robert
Subject(s): Bresson, Robert (1907-1999); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


BRESSON'S MOVIES, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A movie of robert
Last Line: In love. You stand %in the woods, with %a horse, bleeding. %the story is true
Subject(s): Bresson, Robert (1907-1999); Motion Pictures


CECIL B. DE MILLE, by NICHOLAS BENTLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cecil b. De mille, %rather against his will
Last Line: Was persuaded to leave moses %out of 'the war of the roses'
Subject(s): De Mille, Cecil B. (1881-1959); Motion Pictures


CHINESE GRANDMOTHER, by LLOYD STONE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calmly she sits in the darkened movie house
Last Line: And politely watches.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Motion Pictures; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Movies; Cinema


CINEMA VERITE: FILM BEGINNING WITH A LINE BY ROBERTO JUARROZ, by TOM ANDREWS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A net of looking holds the world together. Meanwhile the
Last Line: Trucks, coins, your body, dear reader, your gaze... %this will not work on film
Variant Title(s): Film Beginning With A Line By Roberto Juarro
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


CINEMA VERITE: LECTURE ON SNOW, by TOM ANDREWS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter snowstorm
Last Line: Like a gas pump fallen over ... No: like an old man covered %with snow...
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Snow


CLINT, by BROCK BROWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clint's next film should be a bible epic
Last Line: And direct to camera, say, %'make my day.'
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures


COME HOME FROM THE MOVIES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They already know how to dance
Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures


COME WITH ME, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was on the verge of the actual genuine
Subject(s): Tourists; Motion Pictures; Man-woman Relationships; Movies; Cinema; Male-female Relations


CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights; Movies; Cinema; Feminism


CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and
Last Line: A lousy move, he remarked. Then, his arm gently guided by wife %nancy, he cut the cake
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights


DAFFY DUCK IN HOLLYWOOD, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


DATE MOVIE, by GILLIAN CONOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How I had come to you
Last Line: Broadcast over the moon, red drape
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Relationships


DAYS INN, by M. B. MCLATCHEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything about it says economy
Last Line: To choruses like this. Love wants a jungle shower
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Animals; Apes; Motion Pictures


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


DIRTY VALENTINE, by RICHARD SIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are so many things I'm not allowed to tell you
Last Line: I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


DOCUMENTARY, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I watch your hospital tv as you sleep
Last Line: His face flushed, bursting like a match
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Television; Youth


EARLY CINEMA, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: According to mister hedges, the custodian
Last Line: No movies for months after
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; School; Movies; Cinema


EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes
Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven.
Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday


EDISON FILMS AN EXECUTION, by GEORGE BILGERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jumbo finally put his foot down
Last Line: Of their own fixed frame to vanish %far down the line %in our remote perspective
Subject(s): Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931); Motion Pictures


ENDINGS: 2, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Setting the v.C.R. When we go to bed
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


EPILOGUE, by GWYN MCVAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my sci-fi b-movie, well-stocked
Last Line: The vaporized amen of hot pine resin
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Science Fiction


EXTRA, by PHILIP SCHULTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We knew his dark slavic eyes
Last Line: Anonymity is the supreme vanity, finally
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures


EXTRA GIRL WRITES TO HER SISTER BACK HOME, by LISA VERIGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I got my break! Yesterday, mr. Sennett asked
Last Line: Mourning some hard loss she will never understand
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


EXTRAPOLATION DREAMS: 6. PERPETUAL MOTION, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once upon a time, in the public schools
Last Line: From page to page to page like hammer wheels, %satellites, the extrapolation dreams
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


FAMOUS WOMEN - CLAUDETTE COLBERT, by KATHLEEN DE AZEVEDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was quite a guy how he laughed like oh what's the name of the guy
Last Line: Not that we can tell which was which
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Colbert, Claudette (1903-1996); Motion Pictures; Popular Culture - United States


FIGHT SCENE BEGINNING, by TINO VILLANUEVA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bick benedict, that is, rock hudson in the
Last Line: Of memory, ablaze in warner-color light
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics


FIGHT SCENE, PART 2, by TINO VILLANUEVA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mad-eyed sarge recovers with a vengeance
Last Line: That raging song that seems to keep the fight alive
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics


FIGHT SCENE: FINAL FRAMES, by TINO VILLANUEVA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now it must end. Sarge with too much muscle
Last Line: Again, timing is everything. Dissolve and the music ends
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics


FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was watching a movie / about myself
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures; Actresses; Movies; Cinema


FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was watching a movie %about myself
Last Line: I am not film. I am living, I say [or, he said you, the creature of muscle and hair]
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures


FILM NOIR, by CAROLYN MARIE SOUAID    Poem Source                    
First Line: The war measures act, 1970
Last Line: Past a roadblock, sun rooted to his shoulders %the one thing lifting his spirits
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


FILM NOIR, by ROBERT THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I look for you everywhere: in the 4:00 a.M. Red snapper alleys
Last Line: Her rose umbrella and goes downstairs to the underground rail
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Relationships


FILM NOIR (THE CHASE), by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't have a rat's chance
Last Line: Her snuffed, stubbed out / lipstuck cigarette
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


FILM NOIR (THE CHASE), by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't have a rat's chance
Last Line: Her snuffed, stubbed out %lipstuck cigarette
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


FILM NOIR (THE SET-UP), by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snake oil sales
Last Line: Home, humming gumshoe blues
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


FILM NOIR (THE SET-UP), by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snake oil sales
Last Line: Tired, I humped it %home, humming gumshoe blues
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


FIRST AID TRAINING FILM, by MATTHEW MURREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking up he reaches
Last Line: This is what a man can do
Subject(s): First Aid; Motion Pictures


FIVE EASY POEMS; FOR ANNE-MARIE ALBIACH: 3, by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is as it was in the film
Last Line: The camera shuttles nervously %eddies of dust rise up
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


FOLK SINGER, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The other day I heard in the movies
Last Line: It was so beautiful %how he sang
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Singing And Singers


FOR LAUREL AND HARDY ON MY WORKROOM WALL, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They're tipping their battered derbies and striding forward
Subject(s): Comedy; Hardy, Norvell (oliver) (1892-1957); Laurel, Stan (1890-1965); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


FORREST GUMP' STARRING TOM HANKS, by DANIEL BOSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the river that sees everything
Last Line: Nineteen sixty-two. I will live to hear %the lies of the third millennium
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


FRENCH MOVIE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was in a french movie
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


GETTING UP, LEAVING, by NOLA GARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I go to movies
Last Line: In grainy european films. %then, 'that's good'
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk
Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them...
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War


GROWING UP IN HOLLYWOOD, 1939-1957, by STEPHEN BEAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am not happy in the west
Last Line: Now how is that for irony
Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures


HAIR, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a scene in the film
Subject(s): Hair; Motion Pictures; Concentration Camps; Movies; Cinema


HAND-ME-DOWNS: THE MOVIES, by SUSAN WHEELER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Power schmauer. The trees glinting their crystal boughs beyond the breakfront
Last Line: The sparkling allure of the wager and the winning streak? On your mark, go
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


HAND-ME-DOWNS: THE MOVIES, by SUSAN WHEELER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Power schmauer. The trees glinting their crystal boughs beyond the breakfront
Last Line: The sparkling allure of the wager and the winning streak? On your mark, go
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


HAPPINESS WAS A CHARLIE CHAPLIN MOVIE, by LUIS OMAR SALINAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Papa, here are the seven dollars
Last Line: To make sense %of his bad luck too
Subject(s): Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Motion Pictures


HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 1. STEVE MCQUEEN ..., by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Motherfucker leaped
Last Line: Damn! Strong to be free
Subject(s): African Americans; Mcqueen, Steve (1930-1980); Motion Pictures


HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 2. BOGART IN THE AFRICAN..., by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jumped and yelled, kissed her
Last Line: (grease smeared the lady's white belt), %broke out what she felt
Subject(s): African Americans; Bogart, Humphrey (1899-1957); Motion Pictures


HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 3. GARBO IN NINOTCHKA, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw it twice honey
Last Line: Xcuse me now: that's funny!
Subject(s): African Americans; Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Motion Pictures


HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 4. DENZEL WASHINGTON ..., by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood the lashes
Last Line: (soldiers need shoes): tears you saw-- %dig this - was the blues
Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures; Washington, Denzel


HARLEMITES TALKING ABOUT MOVIES, 4. GARY COOPER ..., by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aims his machine gun
Last Line: Sweet-talks her far from it all. %then the bad cards fall
Subject(s): African Americans; Cooper, Gary (1901-1961); Motion Pictures


HEROIC SMILE, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the swordsman fell in kurosawa's seven samurai
Last Line: There are limits to imagination
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


HEY, DR: WHO, LET'S DIAL 1965, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In petaled decade glassy sunlight
Last Line: Dancers receding?
Subject(s): Screen Writing; Motion Pictures - Play Writing


HOLLYWOOD, by DON BLANDING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hollywood ... Hollywood
Last Line: Perhaps you're a goddess that bears a bright beacon
Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures


HOLLYWOOD, by JOSEPH W. NUGENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Movies show the warrior falling
Subject(s): Hollywood, California; Motion Pictures


HOME MOVIE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the other end of a telescope, a long way
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Family Life; Movies; Cinema; Relatives


HOP, SKIP, AND JUMP: A QUEER TRIO PERSONIFIED, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Hop is a sailor used up in the war
Last Line: Those impalpable ideas of hop, skip, and jump!
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion; Play


HORROR MOVIE, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dr. Unlikely, we love you so
Last Line: There's a little death in every body
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Terror


I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first dream with open eyes
Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs


IF A BASEBALL PLAYER DOES HIS JOB CORRECTLY 30 PERCENT OF THE TIME ..., by BOB KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I once heard the best place to sit
Last Line: Like children who need their parents to believe for them
Subject(s): Baseball; Motion Pictures; Sports


IMAGINATIVE MAN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps,' he told me, 'I imagine things because I don't dream'
Last Line: He closed his eyes, and I knew he was already in full-dream-production mode
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Motion Pictures


IN JOHN UPDIKE'S ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm in your room – I ask them at reception
Last Line: That thing you knew here, and darkness is coming fast
Subject(s): Scotland; Motion Pictures; Mourning; Memory


IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl
Last Line: Watch o'er the happier of his lives: say, does he ewake, or sleep?
Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures; Reading; Movies; Cinema


IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl
Last Line: Say, does he wake, or sleep?
Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures


IN PRAISE OF ANTONIONI, by STEPHEN HOLDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They travelled like a blue pencil against the stars
Last Line: Against the stars defining it %in the darkness under the searchlights
Subject(s): Antonioni, Michelangelo (b. 1912); Motion Pictures


IN THE MOVIES, by BARBARA KOHLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twenty-four times per second
Last Line: Hurts madame take a bite
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


INTERIOR SCROLL, by CAROLEE SCHNEEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From tape 2 'kitch's last meal'
Last Line: Oh no he said we think of you %as a dancer
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


JACK WARDEN, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a woody allen film
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Warden, Jack (1920-2006); Movies; Cinema


JOHN WAYNE'S PERFUMES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 'cast a giant shadow', john wayne wore claiborne sport;
Subject(s): Wayne, John (1907-1979)' Perfume; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


JUGGLER AT HEAVEN'S GATE, by RAYMOND CARVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the dirty table where kristofferson is having
Last Line: To go with that. Juggling
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


KING KONG, by ROBERT MYLES HERSHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great ape emerges from the mist
Last Line: And you look up stunned and bleeding- %the fighter planes like hornets in the searchlights
Subject(s): King Kong; Motion Pictures


KING KONG - AN OUTTAKE FOR THE END, by ROBERT M. CHUTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the great ape dies
Subject(s): King Kong; Motion Pictures


LEAK SOMEWHERE, by MARY JO SALTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No toy in a bathtub, the titanic
Last Line: In random order, and we start to rock %in one another's arms
Subject(s): Disasters; Motion Pictures; Ships And Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship)


LIKENESS, by PETER T. INMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seamstresses' lungs %that she shelves to rock
Last Line: Finished 11/11/91 watching von trotta's film rosa with tina
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Seamstresses


LUCIANO PAVAROTTI STORY, by LOUIS PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The movie of luciano pavarotti
Last Line: (the rest of the film is just plain silly)
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pavarotti, Luciano (b. 1935)


MADAME DELUXE'S ADULT VIDEO AND ALL-NITE DELI, by TENAYA DARLINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's a preview: %the universe seems tender
Last Line: Maybe shrink-wrapped in the cooler of tongues
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Motion Pictures; Sex


MAE MARSH, MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The arts are old, old as the stone
Last Line: Tomorrow's years of yesteryear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Marsh, Mae; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


MAIN CHARACTER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to see
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; West (u.s.); Movies; Cinema; Southwest; Pacific States


MATINEE, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twelve years old, two silver quarters singing
Last Line: Just reach out and take them into my arms.
Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Sexual Harassment; Childhood; Movies; Cinema


MATINEE, by JANE O. WAYNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the forest of that movie theater
Last Line: In the distance - some black bird %that can tear the flesh from bone
Subject(s): Children; Fear; Motion Pictures


MIDWEEK, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plentiful people went to the cadillac drawing
Subject(s): Lotteries; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


MOVIE, by BOB PERELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: History is not a sentence
Last Line: That makes %anomalies of us all, %doesn't it
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel; Movies; Cinema; Journeys; Trips


MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the
Last Line: In snow, if all that you did was get out of the car you'd never %get there
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel


MOVIE ACTRESS, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shal sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses


MOVIE FOR THE IDLE, by DAVID NAPOLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The square of dreams to drunken eyes; golden
Last Line: Proceed, then where is hope to brace the bone?
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


MOVIE HOUSE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: View it, by day, from the back
Last Line: Could secrete a pyramid %to sight the stars by
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


MOVIE STAR IN THE PROJECTION ROOM, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her clothes lean forward in the chair
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses


MOVIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roosevelt, renaissance, gem, alhambra
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures; Negroes; American Blacks; Movies; Cinema


MOVIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roosevelt, renaissance, gem, alhambra
Last Line: (hoolywood %laughs at me, %black %so I laugh back)
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures


MOVIES, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A day at the races rf
Last Line: Masculine feminine
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures


MOVIES FOR THE TROOPS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In hollywood the pale white stars
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Soldiers; War; Movies; Cinema


MY FIRST R-RATED MOVIE, by COREY THRASHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We huddled on a narrow plank of sunlight
Last Line: Bright light of our thirteen years showing the way
Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures


NAPOLEONETTE, by JEFF CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had a small part in napoleonette, I wrapped some meat in news
Last Line: But never was I able to stay a man long enough to remain him
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


NEW YORK MOVIE, 1939, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under an hourglass of lamplight
Last Line: To part the fiery stillness of her curtain
Subject(s): Hopper, Edward (1882-1967); Motion Pictures


NO EVIL COULD, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Used to walk to el
Last Line: Could hear or catch me
Subject(s): Evil; Motion Pictures


NO SMOKING, PLEASE, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cigar smoke can't come into the famous-actor's house
Last Line: The dog, and, alas, the cigar with no lips to give the plot away [or, with no lips to keep it alive]
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; San Joaquin Valley, California; Smoking


NOVELS IN HAIKU: TWO: THE SATIRE, by ALYCE MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They met for burgers. No snow fell, just smog shrouding. He drove
Last Line: They made a movie. She betrayed him, crushed his pride. The %husband directed
Subject(s): Marriage; Motion Pictures; Sex


NOWADAYS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the films they fall into a bed
Last Line: Thing love that will last forever
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


OCTOBER, by JULIO ORTEGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the half-empty city hall
Last Line: In a cold half-empty theater %with few people
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters


ODE TO MR. BONE, by RACHEL LODEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because he is ridiculous
Last Line: Will have its way with both of them
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


OLD MOVIES, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fueled with violins, the luscious soundtrack
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


OLD MOVIES, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fueled with violins, the luscious soundtrack
Last Line: Opalescent air draining out of us %night rushing in
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


OLD MOVIES, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Television is a hereafter
Last Line: The code was handed down
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Television


ON VIEWING TWO DIFFERENT DATE RAPE MOVIES, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Both movies star actresses better known
Last Line: After the weekend, the parties, %the encounters you're never privy to?
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Rape


ONE REASON I LIKE OPERA, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In movies, you can tell the heroine
Subject(s): Opera; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


ONE THING FOR SURE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One thing for sure, you are in motion
Last Line: With its hoarse croak and new plumage
Subject(s): Motion


OUTSIDE A DISNEY MOVIE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light in the forest
Last Line: But that isn't in print
Subject(s): Disney, Walt (1901-1966); Motion Pictures


PAIN, A FENCEPOST, A BLACK-AND-WHITE FILM, by SUSAN B. A. SOMERS-WILLETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because pain is not for anything
Last Line: It sleeps. Sometimes it feels %like a village on fire
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pain


PEPPERS; ON A NEWSPAPER REVIEW OF A ROBERT ALTMAN FILM, by MICHAEL ANDREWS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peppers green, peppers red, peppers blue
Last Line: And I take them the only way I can %on film
Subject(s): Altman, Robert (b. 1925); Critics And Criticism; Motion Pictures


PERPETUAL MOTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandfather swore it would work
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE, by RODNEY JONES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With copper pillaged from busted radios
Last Line: I do not know where any of them are now
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion


PHILADELPHIA' STARRING TOM HANKS, by DANIEL BOSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clots of burnt engine oil that sink into my vat
Last Line: And jacqueline showed up, claiming she had nothing to do?
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


PICTURE-PALACES, by PHILIP HESELTINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The young things who frequent picture-palaces
Last Line: They cling to their long-standing fallacies
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


POPULAR REVIVALS 1956, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thylacine, long thought to be extinct
Last Line: And in the films, co-starred with stewart granger
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


POPULAR REVIVALS 1956, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thylacine, long thought to be extinct
Last Line: And in the films, co-starred with stewart granger
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


PRISONER OF ZENDA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the end a %'the prisoner of zenda'
Last Line: Far from being a stranger, %is also stewart granger
Subject(s): Granger, Stewart (1913-1993); Motion Pictures


PRODUCER REASSURES THE STARLET, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Honey baby, what a silly question
Last Line: I'll fill you in tonight at the motel
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures


PSYCHO COMES TO THE SOUTHSIDE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When watching the classic thriller
Last Line: Once-in-a-lifetime performance
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


REDEMPTION, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The extra well movie ups and outs
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


REDS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There isn't much to say to marxists in nicaragua witth .45s
Last Line: Peter orlovsky laughed.
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


REFLECTIONS ON DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are the teeth, so dazzlingly white
Last Line: Let his fate a warning be. %grin, but not eternally
Subject(s): Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr. (1883-1939); Motion Pictures


REVERIE: FOREIGN MOVIE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by STEPHEN ORLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something innocent and indecent about a foreigner
Last Line: And shook with public laughter
Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve
Variant Title(s): Reverie: Foreign Movie In A Foreign Country [for Reg Gibbons
Subject(s): Italy; Motion Pictures; Strangers; Tourists


SAILBOAT MOVIE, by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sailboat was brand new
Last Line: Where the sky is incidentally green %right now, green and getting darker
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Sailors And Sailing


SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't
Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SAVING PRIVATE RYAN , SELS, by CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For me, the most difficult scene of many difficult
Last Line: Only two. One to kill, one to die. 'wait a second'
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Murder


SCARY MOVIES, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today the cloud shapes are terrifying
Last Line: They're dead, and I'm older, %and I know better
Subject(s): Aging; Death; Motion Pictures


SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics & Government; Popular Culture - United States; Movies; Cinema


SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday
Last Line: Helpless light, local-looking, unthought of at fourteen
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics; Popular Culture - United States


SCREEN TEST, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They don't make movies %like this anymore, mother would say
Last Line: Illuminated on screen %for the whole world to watch
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Motion Pictures; Women


SCRIPT MIST, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hang on to moment, naked, fair
Last Line: In the great carpentry
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Screen Writing; Writing & Writers; Motion Pictures - Play Writing


SEPPUKU, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coming out of it, a curious
Subject(s): Japan; Motion Pictures; Japanese; Movies; Cinema


SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling
Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips


SERIES OF ACTIONS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like someone who has given
Last Line: The door opening as the palm of an eye
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Activity; Motion


SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS ABOUT KING KONG, by JANE COOPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: If so, what does it tell us about ourselves?
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


SHOOTINGS, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dislike watching shootings
Last Line: Who wants to deal with that
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Violence


SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES CINEMATOGRAPHY CLASS: LATE MOVIE, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: During each black and white frame
Last Line: Who's come back for his children
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


SOFT HAIL, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afterward, to tell how it was possible to
Subject(s): Motion; Storms; Ships & Shipping


STOP THE MOVIE, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still experiencing negative
Last Line: I've memorized for %just such occasions
Subject(s): Friendship; Motion Pictures


STUMPTOWN ATTENDS THE PICTURE SHOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Word has come and martha the ticket girl
Last Line: Moving in a cloud of dust toward the theater marquee.
Subject(s): Canton, Georgia; Motion Pictures; Police; Racism; Southern States; Movies; Cinema; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


SURFACES AND MASKS; 2, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sit silently in the dark
Last Line: William dean howells swim / in the grand canal
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Memory; Venice, Italy


TEATRO MARTI, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, I would close one eye and squint the other and count the bulbs
Last Line: Since la revolucion, and to save us, too
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema


THE BLUE ANGEL, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marlene dietrich is singing a lament
Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE COWBOY, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I was
Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Imagination; Motion Pictures; Pranks; Fancy; Movies; Cinema


THE DRINK, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am always interested in the people in films who have just had a drink
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Movies; Cinema; Wine


THE FIRST MOVIE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked with jessamine, the tall black lady
Last Line: Sayng hush, hush, but I 'd hushed myself already
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Childhood Memories


THE FLIRT, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the play approaches its climax
Last Line: On the other side of him.
Subject(s): Flirtation; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE GLORY OF MOTION, by REGINALD (RICHARD) ST. JOHN TYRWHITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three twangs of the horn, and they're all out of cover!
Last Line: The blood and the pace carry on, carry on?
Subject(s): Motion


THE GROUND SQUIRREL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bless us, and save us! What's here
Last Line: Or in less than no time, how we'd rue it!
Subject(s): Perpetual Motion; Squirrels


THE HEREAFTER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the gates to the hereafter
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE HUMAN FACE, by MARY KINZIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A film of green, unfocused plush, of fantasy
Last Line: This is a being. The one nobody dares portray
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Hauser, Kaspar (1812-1833); Faces; Movies; Cinema


THE JAMES BOND MOVIE, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The popcorn is greasy, and I forgot to bring a kleenex
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE LAST MOVIE, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Death; Conduct Of Life; Movies; Cinema; Dead, The


THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On my way home I pass a cameraman
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Children; Movies; Cinema; Childhood


THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes
Last Line: Like young seals around our rock.
Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life


THE MAGIC CARPET, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every american is a movie critic
Last Line: "and ""siponelle,"" large worm."
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Movies; Cinema


THE MOVIE PICTURE COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cowboy game is busted 'cuz the cattle biz dead
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Cowboys; Movies; Cinema


THE MOVIE QUEEN, by MYRTES-MARIE PLUMMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Majestically she sweeps upon the scene
Last Line: Reality gives way to glamorous lore.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE MOVIES, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would like to watch a movie tonight
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE NEW CHINESE FICTION, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although the depiction of living forms
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Motion Pictures; Wit & Humor; Movies; Cinema


THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the end a / 'the prisoner of zenda'
Last Line: Is also stewart granger
Subject(s): Granger, Stewart (1913-1993); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE REELING BRAIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind is a movie film
Last Line: Will applaud ironically.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Reason; Movies; Cinema; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE SEITZ THEATER, by MARTHA RONK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back of the silver screen in sandusky
Last Line: In my first bikinis, into redemption and sin
Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Motion Pictures; Clergy


THE SONG OF THE WIND IN THE CLOUD, by ELLEN ROLFE VEBLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rock, rock, my hollow boat!
Last Line: Shiver by thy spell.
Subject(s): Boats; Clouds; Cruise Ships; Motion; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boing, boing, boing
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Astaire, Fred (1899-1987); Rogers, Ginger (1911-1995); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


THE WORLD'S A MOVING PICTURE PLAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: All the pictures come and go
Subject(s): Life; Motion Pictures


THEY GO TO SEE 3 MOVIES, by CORRADO COSTA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So then they make us continuously %watch movies
Last Line: You should see it %at least twice
Subject(s): Motion Pictures


THIS MINNUTE, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The videotape runs
Last Line: Watching.  and here it starts over
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


TO NORMA SHEARER AS JULIET, by OTTO FREUND    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sword-rasp of the quick, fierce duel is dead
Last Line: And always your white beauty in my heart.
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Shearer, Norma (1900-1983); Movies; Cinema


TORNADO WARNING, by AMY LEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's spring on the silver screen
Last Line: A leaving song, trailers and bassinets
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Tornadoes


TRYING TO HELP, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On another planet, a silvery starlet is brooding
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


TV MEN: LAZARUS, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes I admit a degree of unease about my
Last Line: Of the vermin in his ten fingers and I stand back to wait for the miracle
Subject(s): Motion Pictures, Documentary; God; Television; Names


UFA NIGHTMARE, by WILLIAM EMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gramophony, telephony, photophony
Last Line: Pedals, parched with the fear of solitude
Subject(s): Future; Motion Pictures; Progress


VISION (2), by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No money for lunch so I rode an elevator to the top of the onb
Last Line: Extras, we're a; extras
Subject(s): Native Americans; Racism; Motion Pictures


VIVA ZAPATA!, by AMY WACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's easy to be a hero, in 1952
Last Line: Wrapped in back-lot black
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Zapata, Emiliano (1879-1919)


WANTED, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A white bull, a cassock, an antique mirror
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema


WAR FILM, by TERESA HOOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw, %with a catch of the breath and the heart's uplifting
Last Line: He thought it was a game %and laughed, and laughed
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women; World War I


WARBLER AT HOWELL'S DRIVE-IN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You might come here now
Last Line: Or gone into briars, pine needles, air?
Subject(s): Adolescence; Aging; Decay; Motion Pictures; Teen Agers; Rot; Decadence; Movies; Cinema


WATCHING 'DARK CIRCLE', by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men are willing to observe
Last Line: And ruth landy of the independent documentary group.
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing; Christianity; Motion Pictures, Documentary; Religion; Theology


WATCHING BERGMAN FILMS WITH MY FATHER, by JOE BOLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What you can't quite appreciate
Last Line: Difference between us tonight, %and there's nobody else
Subject(s): Bergman, Ingmar (b. 1918); Motion Pictures


WATCHING WELLES, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What he knows: hustling wine to the middle class
Last Line: Decades gone and replaced by the bitterness %of having nothing but last words to say
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Motion Pictures; Theater And Theaters


WHY WE GAVE UP ON PUNCH LINE DRAMATICS, by WASHINGTON JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: From there we could hear %the shots
Last Line: Because tombstones are the credits %in gods directorial debut'
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Cities; Motion Picture Directors


YEARS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They enter as animals from the outer
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Motion