Florida in Poetry:  A History of the Imagination Eds. Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice O'Sullivan

 

Anonymous: "Have you not hard of Floryda"

Anonymous: Seminole Birth Song

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82): St. Augustine

Walt Whitman (1819-92): Orange Buds by Mail from Florida

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): O Florida, Venereal Soil

Don Blanding (1894-1957): Chorus of Welcome: To the Tourists

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79): Florida

William E. Taylor (1920-93): I Must Come to Terms with Florida

Van Brock (1935): Apalachee

Donald Justice (1925): Childhood

Yvonne Sapia (1946): Inventing Poetry in Miami

Ricardo Pau-Llosa (1954): Zen Walk in the Aftermath of

Hurricane Andrew

Nicholas Le Challeux (16^th c): Octet

Bartolomé de Flores (16^th c): "This Fertile Paradise" from Obra neuvamente compuesta...

Juan de Castellanos (1522-1607): "On Ponce de Léon" and "On the Indians of Florida" from Elegias de varones ilustres de Indias

Alonso Gregorio de Escobedo (16^th c): from La Florida

Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74): from The Deserted Village

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94): The Fountain of Youth

William Johnson (1945): Timucuan Cadenza

Rosemary (1898-1962) and Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943): Hernando De Soto

Will McLean (1919-90): Fort Desoto

X. J. Kennedy (1929): Ponce de Léon

Van K. Brock (1932): Christ in the Sun

Cynthia Cahn (1948-84): Florida Warns Her Colonists

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82): "Ruins of streets of stone, unpeopled town"

Anonymous: The Seminole Removal

Song for the Dying

Walt Whitman (1819-92): Osceola

Anonymous: In the Florida War

Anonymous: Two Songs: The Rough and Ready Songster

Albery Whitman (1851-1901: from Twasinta's Seminoles or The Rape of Florida:

"Invocation"

Canto I: xx, xxv, xxvi

Canto II: lxxiii-lxxv

Will McLean (1919-90): The Dade Massacre

Moses Jumper, Jr. (1950): Major Dade

Carrie Blaine Yeiser: Seminole Sleep Song

Lola Haskins (1943): Teaching the Micasukee: Later

Marguerite Enlow Barze (1895): Wetumpka, Ocoee, and ---

Allen Ginsberg (1926-97): from Poem in the Form of a Snake That Bites its Tail

Moses Jumper, Jr. (1950): We Are As One

Anonymous: Jump, Isabel

Anonymous: Chips from the Smokehouse Floor

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-92): The Branded Hand

Anonymous:I Can Whip the Scoundrel

Anonymous: The Homespun Dress

Lola Haskins (1943): Patsy: Cleaning Cotton, At Night

Jane Marshall: There are days now you do not write

Suzanne Keyworth (1948): Great Grandfather "Dose" Wilder

Yvonne Sapia (1946): Godiva at Olustee

Anonymous: I Want to Go Back to Georgia

Anonymous: Poor Old Woman

Anonymous:Gator Can't Run

Anonymous: The Nucleus

Stephen Foster (1826-64): Old Folks at Home

Sidney Lanier (1842-81): From the Flats

A Florida Sunday

Anonymous: from The Ton

Julia Anderson (19^th c): Pensacola Bay

Anonymous: Speaking Diversely

C. V. Waugh: Florida, My Florida

Anonymous: Three Songs from the Turpentine Camps

Anonymous: Come All You Rounders

G. Nilpik (19^th-20^th c): 'Ere's to You, Mr. Temple

Suzanne Keyworth (1948): Grandmother Pauline, Socrum, Florida

Anonymous: Shear Um

Anonymous: Turkey Hammock

Anonymous: Rolling Stock

Anonymous: My Cindy

Anonymous: Big Jim in the Barroom

Anonymous: Hog Wild

Marguerite Enlow Barze(1895): Ballad of Bone Mizell

Anonymous: Sweet Florida

Anonymous: Song of Boatmen on the Hillsborough River

Anonymous: Sponger Money

Anonymous: Four Conch Songs

Anonymous: The Wrecker's Song

Howard Camner (1957): The Wrecker

Anonymous: Down in the Diving Bells

Tennessee Williams (1911-83): The Diving Bell

Anonymous: Can't You Line It?

Anonymous: Old Folk Song from Polk County

Anonymous: Herlongs Train

J.B. Killibrew (19^th-20^th c): Consummatum Est

George Graham Currie (1867-1926): Follow the Crowd

Robert Watson (1925): Henry Flagler's Song

Anonymous: Chain Gang Theme Song

Langston Hughes (1902-67): Florida Road Workers

Harry Evans (19^th c): The Lost Boys of East Bay

Sidney Lanier (1842-81): A Florida Ghost

Anonymous: Miami Hairikin

Anonymous: West Palm Beach Storm

Will McLean (1919-90): Hold Back the Waters

Hart Crane (1899-1932): Hurricane

Enid Shomer (1944): Hurricane Season

Geoffrey Philp (1958): Heirlooms

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): Fabliau of Florida

Nomad Exquisite

Indian River

Farewell to Florida

Timothy Thomas Fortune(1856-1928): The Clime of My Birth

George Merrick (1886-1942): The Eden Isle

Stephen Cochran Singleton (20^th c): Lake Tohopekaliga

Zora Neale Hurston (1890-1960): Prayer

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938):The Creation

Hart Crane (1899-1932): Royal Palm

Key West

George Dillon (1906-68): Sonnets

Franklin N. Wood (1877-1931): Tampa

Florida Dusk

Vivian Laramore Rader (1891-1975): Everglades

Florida Landscape

Aleda Norma Davis (20^th c): Biscayne Bay

Etta Josephean Murfey (20^th c): Moss-Hung Oaks

Rose Strong Hubbell (20^th c): The Mangroves Dance

Marlise Johnston (20^th c): Florida Night

Elaine Duncan Sigler (20^th c): A Million Years to Come

Eleanor Anderson Fay (20^th c): Sunset

Maxeda Hess (20^th c): Florida Jungle

Peggy Hudgings(20^th c): Florida

Maria Moravsky (20^th c): Miami

Anita Austermann (20^th c): Sea Grapes

Don Blanding (1894-1957): Lime Pie

Alfonso Camín (20^th c): A Stop in Miami

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79): Seascape

Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958): Pero lo solo

Richard Eberhart (1905): Opposition

Ichetucknee

William Mundell (1912): Looking for God--Arcadia

At Ten Thousand Islands

John Ciardi (1916-86): Tuesday: Four Hundred Miles

Stetson Kennedy (1916): Paine's Prairie

May Swenson (1919-89): In Florida

Last Night at Long Pine

Duane Locke (1921): Ybor City

William E. Taylor (1921-93): A Woman Combing

Fanny Ventadour (20^th c): Kalusa Country

Allan Block (1923): Causeway (Captiva, Florida)

Donald Justice (1925): Memory of a Porch

A Winter Ode to the Old Men of Lummus Park

James Merrill (1926-96): Monday Morning

A. R. Ammons (1926): from Garbage

Robert Dana (1929): Estero Island Beach Club

Judith Berke (1931): Vizcaya

The Shell

Van K. Brock (1932): Littoral

Driving at Dawn

The Land of Old Fields

Peter Meinke (1932): The Magic Kingdom

Dawn at the Seashore

The Cloud, Florida 1985

Edmund Skellings (1932): Moon Flight

In Florida

Organization of American States

Jean West (1935): Inpression: Orange County Florida Spring

"The State with the Prettiest Name"

A. McArthur Miller (1937): from Shell Mounds

Transcript

Bruce Aufhammer (1938): Beautiful Swimmer

Justin Spring (1939): Carol Gillespie

The Unfinished Suspension Bridge

R. Crumb (20^th c): The Space Behind the Clock

Anonymous (20^th c): Leaving Raiford

Wiburn A. Cockrell (1941): Those ancient Floridians

Eric Ormsby (1941): A Florida Childhood

Lola Haskins (1943): Burning the Field for Spring,

LaCrosse, Florida

Enid Shomer (1944): Being Saved in Daytona Beach

Walking in Kudzu

Eugenie Nable (1944): Flight 318 to Orlando

Barbara Winder (20^th c): Cuban Refugees on Key Biscayne

Philip Schultz (1945): The Hemingway Home in Key West

Philip Deaver (1946): Fossils

Mario Petaccia (20^th c): Poetry Workshop

Yvonne Sapia (1946): Civilization Poem

South Beach: Proteus, S-Shaped in Sand

North Florida Pastoral

Cynthia Cahn (1948-84): Ebb Tide (Route 92)

Mock-Up

Donald Caswell (1948) : Carswell Reads in St. Petersburg

Carole Cole (1948): Florida Sandspur

Stephen Corey (1948): Crow in Florida

Suzanne Keyworth (1948): Thoughts While Gazing at a Cypress Fence

An Attempt to Revise

Bridget Balthorp Morton (1948): Midway

Sunday at the Lone Cabbage Fish Camp

David Bottoms (1949): Scavengers at the Palm Beach County Landfill

Barbra Nightingale (1949): In Florida

Joann Gardner (1950): The Last Resort

St. Armand's Key, January 1992

Rick Campbell (1952): Orange Nights, Cold Skies

The Breathers, St Mark's Lighthouse

Alison Kolodinsky (1953): Body Art Poses Risk of Infection

New Year's Eve Sestina

Ricardo Pau-Llosa (1954): El Capitolio

Frutas

View of Miami

Silvia Curbelo (1955): Flying Cloud Motel

Snapshot, Key West

Dionisio D. Martinez (1956): Pasco 41

Complacency

Gianna Russo (1956): Child's Morning in Saint Augustine

Directions for Driving the Tamiami Trail

Howard Camner (1957): The Man Who Went Straight at the Fork in the Road

Carolina Hospital (1957): In Search of Stevens and His Disciples

Near Pigeon Key

Marisella Veiga (1957): Miami Beach

Sylvia Maltzman (1958): It's a Cold, Cold Day at Satellite Beach

 Geoffrey Philp (1958): Neptune

Una Carta Para Andrew

Lu Vickers (1958): Why My Grandmother Feeds the Crows

Richard Brobst (1958): Placida

Peter Schmitt (1958): Frost in Miami

Philip Asaph (1960): Bliss Mobile Village

Elegy for the Latest Mass Murderer

W.C. Morton (1962): Florida Prelude

Janet Heller (1964): The Knife Thrower

Richard Smyth (1964): On Living On

Saint Augustine

Lois Lenski (1893-1974): Big Ole Alligator

Vivian Laramore Rader (1891-1975): Alligator

Agnes Kendrick Gray (b. 1894): Alligators in the Sun

Yvonne Sapia (1946): Meeting at Alligator Lake

David Bottoms (1949): Watching Gators at Ray Boone's Reptile Farm

Marlise Johnston (20^th c): Coral Snake

Lois Lenski (1893-1974): Rattler

David Bottoms (1949): The Copperhead

Will McLean (1919-90 ): Ballad of the Green Turtle

Rick Campbell (1952): Loggerhead, Juno Beach

Barbra Nightingale (1949): Sea Turtles

Sylvia Maltzman (1958): Lizards

Marjory Stoneman Douglas(1890): To a Buzzard Swinging in Silence

Sidney Lanier (1842-81): The Mocking Bird

Van K. Brock (1932): The Mockingbird

Sidney Lanier (1842-81): Tampa Robins

Peter Meinke (1932): One Hundred Robins

Elizabeth MacEvitt (20^th c): Cat Birds

Ruby Pearl Patterson (20^th c): Whippoorwill

Don Blanding (1894-1957): Pelican

Richard Wilbur (1921): The Pelicans

Vivian Laramore Rader (1891-1975): Ode to a Pelican

Flamingo

Don Blanding (1894-1957): Flamingos

Marisella Veiga (1957): Flamingos

May Swenson (1919-89): One of the Strangest

Rick Campbell (1952): Sea Gull, Singer Island

Harriet Gray Blackwell (20^th c): Anhinga

Barbra Nightingale (1949): Snipe Hunting at Elliot Key

Maxine Kumin (1925): Noted in the New York Times

Van K. Brock (1932): The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Stephen Corey (1948): Chicken in a Florida City

Eric Ormsby (1941): Grackle

Moses Jumper, Jr. (1950): O-pa

Sam Harrison (1947): Hawk

David Bottoms (1949): Under the Vulture Tree

Dionisio D. Martinez (1956): Late Night in Early August at the Gandy Bridge

Edmund Skellings (1932): The Dania Pier

Stephen Reilly (1951): Dania Fishing Pier

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79): The Fish

Richard Wilbur (1921): Trolling for Blues

Donald Caswell: Barnacles

Eric Ormsby (1941): Horseshoe Crab

Rick Campbell (1952): Horseshoe Crabs Mating at Carabelle Beach

David Bottoms (1949): Gar

Frederick Gilbert (1919): Shark Hunt

Malcolm Glass (1936): Fishing for Sharks

Greg Pape (1947): Sharks, Caloosahatchee River

Enid Shomer (1944): To Fish, To Remember

Don Blanding (1894-1957): Veto

W. Robert Wilson (20^th c): Zing Zong

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955): Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shore

Sam Harrison ((1947): Walking Stick

Ray Wonder (1941): Dragonflies

Ricardo Pau-Llosa (1954): Fly

P. V. LeForge (1947): Anting

Marisella Veiga (1957): Cockroach

Vivian Laramore Rader (1891-1975): The Bat

Maxine Kumin (1925): Thoughts on Saving the Manatee

Donald Caswell (1948): The Manatee

Peter Meinke (1932): Death of the Pilot Whales

Van K. Brock (1932): Cows Waking in a Pasture

Enid Shomer (1944): Among the Cows

Moses Jumper, Jr. (1950): Ee-cho

Barbara Winder (20^th c): The Polar Bear at Crandon Park Zoo, Miami

Allison Kolodinsky (1953): Armadillo Alley

Enid Shomer (1944): Stalking the Florida Panther

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