“There will be no edges, but curves,” writes Tracy K. Smith in her poem “Sci-Fi.” How do poets approach the future?
Read a selection of future-themed poems, selected by our friends at the Poetry Society of New York.
- “Venus” by D. Nurkse
- “Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Maria Rainer Rilke
- “On a Lamp Post Long Ago” by Ada Limon
- “Let Them Not Say” by Jane Hirshfield
- “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan
- “For the Anniversary of My Death” by W.S. Merwin
- “Black Stone Lying on a White Stone” by Cesar Vallejo
- “Implications for Modern Life” by Matthea Harvey
- “Sci-Fi” by Tracy K. Smith
