Poets & Poems to Provoke

Jenny Holzer has collaborated with and/or recontextualized the poetry/writing of:

Henri Cole
Wislawa Szymborska
Yehuda Amichai
Randall Mann
Pablo Neruda
Federico Garcia Lorca
Walt Whitman

Other amazing poems/poets to instigate, provoke, encounter, intervene:

Attila Jozsef, Hungary "The Seventh"
Sekou Sundiata, "Shout Out"
Cszelow Milosz
George Ella Lyon, "Where I'm From..."
Pablo Neruda, Book of Questions
Pablo Neruda, Odes to Common Things
Wallace Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Langston Hughes
Richard Wright
Gwendolyn Brooks, "Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward"
Amiri Baraka, "Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note"
June Jordan
Nazim Hikmet, "Things I Didn't Know I Loved," "On Living" http://www.poets.org/
Allen Ginsberg, "Is About"
Sonia Sanchez
Etheridge Knight
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "I am Waiting"
Primo Levi, "Shema"
Carolyn Forche Against Forgetting
Gregory Orr, Poetry as Survival
Octavio Paz, "La Casa de la Mirada/The House of Glances"
Cesare Pavese, "Ancestors"
Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, "Stephen Muruli Dies in Campus Fire," http://www.contrarymagazine.com/