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Subject: NEW YORK CITY - TERRORIST ATTACK, 9/11
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A STROKE OF SKY, by TESS GALLAGHER            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Innocence; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


CENTRAL PARK, CAROUSEL, by MEENA ALEXANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: June already, it's your birth month,
Last Line: If I die leave the balcony open!
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Merry-go-rounds; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


EASY SERMON, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sermons are easy
Last Line: When the highest powers fall
Subject(s): Sermons; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


FROM THE TOWERS, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Insanity is not a want of reason.
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


FULL FLIGHT, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I’m in a plane that will not be flown into a building
Last Line: We’ve begun our descent, and then I sense the falling
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); Airplanes; Air Pilots; New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: What's after or before
Last Line: All turned to dust
Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


HISTORY OF THE AIRPLANE, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: And the wright brothers said they thought they had invented
Last Line: "fill the air
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


IN RUBBLE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Right after the bomb, even before the ceiling
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


INVITATION TO GROUND ZERO, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the smouldering ruin now go down:
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They manufacture newsprint with a grain
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What did we in all honesty expect?
Last Line: Do they hate me
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


SOME COMMON TERMS IN LATIN THAT ARE LARGER THAN OUR LIVES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mutant-engineered bloodsucker djinns, invisibility rays
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


THE TWIN TOWERS ARCANE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such mourning as we
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


THE WINDOW, AT THE MOMENT OF FLAME, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: And all this while I have been playing with toys
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


WHEN THE TOWERS FELL, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From our high window we saw the towers
Last Line: Each life, put out, lies down within us
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11


Y2K, by EAMON GRENNAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mutation of bells. Chapels vanishing in fog
Subject(s): World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11