English / 1901-1920
W.H. Auden (York, 1907-1973): Danse Macabre by Auden
Ben Belitt (New York, 1911-2003): Dance pience
John Berryman (Oklahoma, 1914-1972): King David dances
Earle Birney (Calgary, Canada, 1904-1995): The bear on the Delhi road
Richard Buckle (Warcop, UK, 1916-2001): Pippa Passes
Telegram To The Poet and Critic Edwin Denby on his sixtieth birthday
João Cabral de Melo Neto (Recife, Brazil, 1920-1999): The Dancer by Joao
Sydney Carter (Camden Town, London, UK, 1915-2004): Lord of the Dance
John Collier (London, UK, 1901-1980): Isadora Duncan (The Modern Age)
Margaret Danner (Kentucky, 1915-1984): Dance of the Abakweta
Donald Davidson (Massachussetts, 1917-2003): Pavane
Robert Duncan (Oakland, 1919-1988): The Dance by Duncan
Carlos Drummond de Andrade: Dawn
William Empson (Yorkshire, 1906-1984): The beautiful train
Paul Engle (Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US, 1908-1991): DANCER: FOUR POEMS
Konstanty Ildefons Galczynski (Warsaw, 1905-1953): Night Is Dancing
Langston Hughes (Missouri, 1902-1967): Dream variation
Helene Johnson (Massachussetts, 1906-1995): Bottled: New York
A.M. Klein (Ukraine, 1909-1972): Psalm XII
James Kirkup (South Shields, UK, 1918-2009): Homage to Vaslav Nijinsky
James Laughlin (Pennsylvania, 1914-1997): Martha Graham
John Lehmann (Bourne End, 1907-1987): ON WITH THE DANCE
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Englewood, NJ, USA, 1906-2001):
Robert Lowel (Massachusetts, 1917-1977): Poet to ballerina
Louis MacNeice (Belfast, 1907-1963): Les Sylphides
William Meredith (New York, 1919-2007): Dialogue at the ballet
Kenneth Rexroth (Indiana, 1905-1982): Song for a Dancer
Theodore Roethke (Michigan, 1908-1963): My papa’s waltz
Winfield Townley Scott (Massachussets, 1910-1968): Re-Run
Jaroslav Seifert (Zizkov, Czech Republic, 1901-1986): Dance-Song
Karl Shapiro (Baltimore, 1913-2000): Ballet Mécanique
James Schevill (Berkeley, 1920-2009): Descartes Composes a Ballet
Stevie Smith (U.K., 1902-1971): The dedicated dancing bull
The Dedicated Dancing Bull and the Water Maid
Bernard Spencer (India, 1909-1963): Castanets
Stephen Spender (England, 1909-1995): The swan
William Stafford (Kansas, 1914-1993): At the Klamath Berry Festival
Terence Tiller (Truro, 1916-1987): Egyptian dancer
Parker Tyler (New Orleans, 1904-1974): Nijinsky
Peter Viereck (New York, 1916-2006): Graves are made to waltz on