There are 65 Poems about Theater & Dance
= First appeared in Poetry magazine. Take Me Out to the Go-Go
By Thomas Sayers Ellis
A Dialogue between Caliban and Ariel
By John Fuller
A Poem Beginning with a Line from Pindar
By Robert Duncan
A Private Matter
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Acting
By R. S. Thomas
as i fly over this time
By Thulani Davis
Ballet School
By Babette Deutsch
Belly Dancer
By Diane Wakoski
Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey
Burlesque
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson
Caedmon
By Denise Levertov
Cameo Appearance
By Charles Simic
Casanova's Bossa Nova 
By Rich Murphy
Cold Turkey 
By Joshua Mehigan
Comus
By John Milton
Dance Piece
By Ben Belitt
Dancers Exercising
By Amy Clampitt
Dear Doctor, I have Read your Play
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Drury-lane Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747
By Samuel Johnson
Every Day We Are Dancers 
By Mitch Roberson
Ex Machina
By Linda Gregerson
Eyes Like Leeks
By Linda Gregerson
Isis: Dorothy Eady, 1924
By Mark Doty
Joy
By Alan Shapiro
Lines
By Ina Coolbrith
Man Dancing with a Baby 
By Susan Stewart
Manfred: Incantation
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)
Masks in Rain
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Merce of Egypt
By Charles Olson
Miranda’s Drowned Book
By Debora Greger
Mobile-Buck
By James Edwin Campbell
My Last Dance
By Julia Ward Howe
No Images
By William Waring Cuney
On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton
Ovation
By Carol Muske-Dukes
Peripeteia
By Anthony Hecht
Poem, on a Nude, from the Ballet, to Debussy’s Prelude L’Après-Midi D’un Faune, after MallarmÃ’s L’Apres-Midi D’un Faune
By Dudley Randall
Poet Dances with Inanimate Object
By Cornelius Eady
Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ritual One
By David Ignatow
Santo Domingo Feast Day
By Robin Becker
Saturday Night
By Alicia Ostriker
Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary
Shy Boy 
By Greg Sellers
Sonnet CX: Alas, 'tis True I have Gone here and there
By William Shakespeare
Sonnet CXI: O, for my Sake do you with Fortune Chide
By William Shakespeare
The Best Slow Dancer
By David Wagoner
The Chorus
By Rachel Hadas
The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race
By Vachel Lindsay
The Conqueror Worm
By Edgar Allan Poe
The Cook's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer
The Curse
By J. M. Synge
The Dance in Jinotega
By Grace Paley
The Dancer
By David Tucker
The Dong with a Luminous Nose
By Edward Lear
The Empty Dance Shoes
By Cornelius Eady
The Last Movie
By Rachel Hadas
The Machine
By Carol Muske-Dukes
The Reading Club
By Patricia Goedicke
There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear
To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr
To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve on his Comedy Call'd the Double Dealer
By John Dryden
To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
By Adelaide Crapsey
Togetherness 
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Victims of the Latest Dance Craze
By Cornelius Eady
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