do you know any poems about the city?

Question

i just need the poem's name and author. thanks

Answer 1

Carl Sanburg wrote a lot of poems about chicago. this website will give you a listing of them.

http://www.sanjeev.net/poetry/sandburg-carl/index.html

Answer 2

“Lenox Avenue Mural” Langston Hughes
“Pennsylvania Station” Langston Hughes
“Clark Street” Barbara Harr
“Stories of the Street” Leonard Cohen
“By Air: Albany-Baltimore” Allen Ginsberg
“The War Against the Trees” Stanley Kunitz
“The Mouth of the Hudson” Robert Lowell
“Prayers of Steel” Carl Sandburg
“Chicago” Carl Sandburg
“Down These Mean Streets” Piri Thomas
“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Walt Whitman
“Manahatta” Walt Whitman
“The Holdup Men” Jorge Guillen
“Give Me Your Tired . . .” Donald Jones
“Pigeon Woman” May Swenson
“Doors” David Wagoner
“Harlem” Jean Brierre
“The Man-Moth” Elizabeth Bishop
“London” William Blake
“To a Tidelands Oil Pump” Beatrice Janosco

Answer 3

You should check out some beat poets, they often wrote about the city.

Ginsberg specificly did alot of this.