The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W.B. Yeats

Snail” by Langston Hughes

I, Too” by Langston Hughes

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats

Chicago” by Carl Sandburg

Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot

A New National Anthem” by Ada Limón

I Go Back To May 1937” by Sharon Olds

Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara

Dream Song 14” by John Berryman

Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson

Anyone lived in a pretty town” by E. E. Cummings

High Flight by John Gillespie Magee



Poem recommendations from friends.

In anticipation of 2026’s graduation ceremony, the Campus Times conducted an interview with upcoming Commencement speaker Jeannine Shao Collins ’86. Collins, who earned a bachelor's degree in economics from URochester, currently works as the Chief Client Officer at Kargo: a multiplatform advertising and media company. Read More

Poem recommendations from friends.

The first realization of my own age hit me in the months before I started college. I was helping my dad clean the small office he’d occupied in Rush Rhees longer than I’d been alive. The walls of which boasted childhood drawings that my sister and I had crayoned. Even though I was looking at my distant past, I realized I would soon be starting a new page of my future. Read More

Poem recommendations from friends.

As per tradition, “The State of the Campus Times” updates readers on our affairs — the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) and Publisher write this pseudo-column at the start and end of every semester to articulate the struggles and joys found through managing your local student-run newspaper. We also introduce ourselves and our projects, what we hope to achieve during our terms, and we provide progress updates regarding past management’s pursuits. Read More