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Famous Reno Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Reno poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous reno poems. These examples illustrate what a famous reno poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Ginsberg, Allen
...e 
 dragonflames licking green flats north-hazed
 State Capitol metallic rubble, dry checkered fields
 to Sierras- past Reno, Pyramid Lake's 
 blue Altar, pure water in Nevada sands' 
 brown wasteland scratched by tires

 Jerry Rubin arrested! Beaten, jailed,
 coccyx broken--
Leary out of action--"a public menace...
 persons of tender years...immature
 judgement...pyschiatric examination..."
i.e. Shut up or Else Loonybin...Read more of this...



by Levine, Philip
...she refills it. I read 
slowly in The New York Times 
that poems are dying in Iowa, 
Missoula, on the outskirts of Reno, 
in the shopping galleries of Houston. 
We should all go to the grave 
of the unknown poet while the rain 
streaks our notebooks or stand 
for hours in the freezing winds 
off the lost books of our fathers 
or at least until we can no longer 
hold our pencils. Men keep coming 
in and going out, and two of them 
recall the great dirty fights 
be...Read more of this...

by Alighieri, Dante
...le
sotto 'l qual tu nascesti parve amaro.
 Poi, presso al tempo che tutto 'l ciel volle
redur lo mondo a suo modo sereno,
Cesare per voler di Roma il tolle.
 E quel che f? da Varo infino a Reno,
Isara vide ed Era e vide Senna
e ogne valle onde Rodano ? pieno.
 Quel che f? poi ch'elli usc? di Ravenna
e salt? Rubicon, fu di tal volo,
che nol seguiteria lingua n? penna.
 Inver' la Spagna rivolse lo stuolo,
poi ver' Durazzo, e Farsalia percosse
s? ch'al Nil caldo ...Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne
...eed for Maine's coast. Later the funny salt
itched in my pores and stung like bees or sleet.
I rinsed it off on Reno and hurried to steal
a better proof at tables where I always lost.

Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
would keep us calm and prove us whole at last....Read more of this...

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