Poems in Movies

It's Oscar Season and Poets.org sent out a newsletter regarding poetry and film. Here is the list of poems regarding movies. Also read the essay, in which "Stacey Harwood explores the numerous references to poetry in a variety of films." Read her essay "The Well-Versed Movie."


Poems about Movies

Heroic Simile, by Robert Hass
When the swordsman fell in Kurosawa's Seven Samurai / in the gray rain, / in Cinemascope and the Tokugawa dynasty...

Brad Pitt, by Aaron Smith
With cotton candy armpits and sugary / Crevices, sweat glazing your donut skin. / Have you ever been fat, Brad?...

Chaplinesque, by Hart Crane
We make our meek adjustments, / Contented with such random consolations / As the wind deposits...

Daffy Duck in Hollywood, by John Ashbery
Something strange is creeping across me. / La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars...

Homage to Sharon Stone, by Lyn Emanuel
It's early morning. This is the "before," / the world hanging around in its wrapper...