Here you can find poems from the 2021 and 2019 editions of our Poetry Project. This year, we asked Ada Limón to select nine distinguished American poets to respond to artworks from the Museum’s collection. In 2019, for the Museum’s reopening, we asked Robin Coste Lewis to invite a group of poets to contribute an original poem written in response to a work of art in MoMA’s collection. You can read and listen to these poems below.
Poetry Project
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Poetry Project
“50 Lines after Figure (2001) by Glenn Ligon”
Tiana Clark
Dec 14, 2021
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Poetry Project
“UNITED ENEMIES”
José Olivarez
Dec 7, 2021
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Poetry Project
“If Grief Is Mostly Private and Always Various”
Carl Phillips
Nov 30, 2021
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“On Rain or Light or Joy”
Jake Skeets
Nov 17, 2021
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Poetry Project
“Xoloitzcuintin”
Rigoberto Gonzalez
Nov 9, 2021
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Poetry Project
“For Cao Fei, Whose Utopia”
Forrest Gander
Nov 2, 2021
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Poetry Project
“Benediction”
Camille T. Dungy
Oct 26, 2021
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Poetry Project
“On a Clear Day”
Victoria Chang
Oct 19, 2021
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Poetry Project
“Sojournal”
Kazim Ali
Oct 13, 2021
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Poetry Project
“Not at All What We Expected”
Ada Limón
Sep 30, 2021
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Poetry Project
Elegy for Us
Crystal Williams
Jan 7, 2020
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Poetry Project
The Mirror & the Ribbon
Ada Limón
Dec 31, 2019
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Poetry Project
On the Occasion Of
Ross Gay
Dec 17, 2019
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Poetry Project
After Ana Mendieta’s Nile Born
Aracelis Girmay
Dec 10, 2019
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The Essence of Things
Wendy S. Walters
Dec 4, 2019
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Poetry Project
sans papiers
lê thị diễm thúy
Nov 26, 2019
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Poetry Project
Poem in the Form of a Telegram to Someone Looking at Henri Rousseau’s The Sleeping Gypsy
Sharon Olds
Nov 19, 2019
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Poetry Project
Widowed House
Fanny Howe
Nov 13, 2019
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Poetry Project
The Impossible Lesbian Love Object(s)
Brenda Shaughnessy
Nov 5, 2019
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Poetry Project
The Jungle
Yusef Komunyakaa
Oct 29, 2019