I am a junior high teacher, and am currently teaching a poetry unit to my grade 8 class. I am searching for poetry related to the future, or even specifically to the millenium. Do you know of any good websites, poets, or books?

-- Jennifer Anderson (Janderson1@sprint.ca), April 22, 1999

Answers

Hi Jennifer,

I have a web page called "Endtime Poetry" where you may find some poems on the millennium with a Christian flavor.

http://www.prophezine.com/poetry/index.html

I'm also looking for poems written by kids for another page I set up called "Young Poets" (it is linked through the above address) so when your students are done with their poems have them give me a buzz.

Lori Eldridge Freelance Writer/poet BA English/Creative writing with a focus on Poetry Assistant Editor of Prophezine and Alpha and Omega Report Editor of Endtime Poetry and Young Poets

-- Lori Eldridge (lorel@ior.com), July 08, 1999.

I will email you whatever I find . In the meantime, althought not quite what you want, this is a nice and funny poem about 'the future '. . Progress by Samuel Hoffenstein - ( 1890 - 1947 )

They'll soon be flying to Mars, I hear -

But how do you open a bottle of beer ?

A flash will take you from Nome to New York -

But how the hell do you pull a cork ?

They'll rocketeer you to Hibernia -

But open a window and get a hernia.

They've stripped space from the widow'd blue -

But where is the lace that fits a shoe ?

Where is the key that fits a lock ?

Where is the garter that holds a sock ?

They'll hop to the moon and skip to the stars,

But what'll stay put are the lids on jars.

The mighty telescope looks far,

But finds no place to park a car.

The world crackles with cosmic minds

Tangled up in Venetian blinds.

One day they'll resurrect the dead,

Who'll die again of colds in the head.

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), April 23, 1999.