POETRY WITHOUT PITY

Make Your Own Poetry Video Contest

1. Make a video based on one of the public domain poems listed below. Your video can be inspired by the title, one line, one stanza, or the whole poem. Your video must be under 1024 MB and no longer than 20 minutes (though we encourage much shorter videos).
2. Post your video on the Poetry Foundation Facebook fan page.
3. We'll post our favorites on poetryfoundation.org and give you a free subscription to Poetry magazine.

Public Domain Poems

1. “The Garden of Love” by William Blake
2. “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” by Anne Bradstreet
3. “Sonnets from the Portuguese 28: My Letters!” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4. “Before I got my eye put out” by Emily Dickinson
5. “Sea Poppies” by H.D.
6. “The Paradox” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
7. “A Toast for Men Yun-Ch’ing” by Tu Fu
8. “Channel Firing” by Thomas Hardy
9. “Delight in Disorder” by Robert Herrick
10. “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
11. “Modern Love” by John Keats
12. “The Artist” by Amy Lowell
13. “A January Dandelion” by George Marion McClellan
14. “Eve Describes Her Creation” from Paradise Lost by John Milton
15. “An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady to Marriage” by Katherine Philips
16. “The Solitude of Night” by Li-Po
17. Beginning of “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti
18. “A Little Called Pauline” by Gertrude Stein
19. “To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” by Phillis Wheatley
20. “A child said What is the grass? . . .” by Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass 6