Contemporary Latin Poetry

This page is now available as a pagina in lingua Latina scripta.

This page is meant to be a jumping-off point for examples of modern (aka 20th and 21st century) Latin verse as well as information about such things as scansion, poetic style, and anything else that seems related.

If you're looking for an index to general info on Latin and the Classics, I refer you to Yahoo.

• Poetry on this site
  • Collections
  • Individual Poems
  • Submit your poetry to this site
  • Search these poems
• Poetry not on this site
• Poetry available outside the web
• References and resources

• By Gerd Allesch:
  • Delecta ex epigrammatum libello Gerardi Alesii (Latin)
• By Andrea Cipolla:
  • Poems (Latin)
• By Stephen Coombs: (b. England, 1943)
  • Poems (Latin)
  • De Continentibus (Latin)
• By Florindo Di Monaco: (b. Italy, 1947)
  • Poems (Latin)
  • Terrarum Mirabilissima Decem (Latin)
  • Anni Tempora (Latin)
• By Pedro Martínez Figueroa: (b. Mexico, 1964)
  • Poems (Spanish, Latin)
• By Manfred Hoffmann:
  • Epigrams (Latin)
• By John Lee: (b. Australia, 1933)
  • Xenia Apophoretaque pro Temporibus Praesentibus (Xenia and Apophoreta for the Present Day) (English, Latin)
  • Epigrammata Sacra necnon Profana (Epigrams Sacred and Profane) (English, Latin)
• By Marc Moskowitz: (b. USA, 1972)
  • Poemata Domestica (Domestic Poems) (no macrons | true macrons) (English, Latin)
  • Poemata Politica (Political Poems) (no macrons | true macrons) (English, Latin)
  • Poemata Academica (Academic Poems) (no macrons | true macrons) (English, Latin)
  • Hebe et Ganymedes (Hebe and Ganymede) (no macrons | true macrons) (English, Latin)
  • Disticha Diurna (Daily Couplets) (no macrons | true macrons) (Spanish, English, Latin)
  • Versiones et Nova Verba Carminum Linguarum Aliarum (Versions and New Words to Songs in Other Languages) (English, Latin)
• By Nuntia:
  • Poems (Latin)
• By Christian Pawlu: (b. Germany, 1977)
  • Poems (English, Latin)
• By Jonathan Rollinson: (b. England, 1977)
  • Poems (Spanish, English, Latin)
• By Massimo Scorsone:
  • Poems (no macrons | true macrons) (Latin)
  • Haicua (no macrons | true macrons) (Latin)
  • Carmina miscellanea (Latin)
  • Selecta quaedam ex Vedarum libris (no macrons | true macrons) (Latin)
• By Alexander Smarius: (b. Holland, 1970)
  • Alexandri Smarii Crispi Rerum Gestarum sive Amorum Monobiblion (Latin)
• By Alain Van Dievoet:
  • Poems (no macrons | true macrons) (Latin)
  • Poemata Numerata (no macrons | true macrons) (Latin)
• By Robert Wallisch:
  • Ortygia, Odae latinae (no macrons | true macrons) (Latin)
• By Brad Walton:
  • Collectio Prima Epigrammatum (Latin)
  • Collectio Secunda Epigrammatum (Latin)
  • Collectio Tertia Epigrammatum (Latin)
  • Collectio Quarta Epigrammatum (Latin)
  • Versiones quorundam carminum vernaculorum (Latin)
  • Versiones Carminum Persicorum Et Serbo-Croaticorum (Latin)

• By Jeff Chambers: "Amore Aeger (Lovesick)" (English, Latin)
• By E. Dorsus: "Tramen Horae Undecimae" (Latin)
• By Joseph Gangestad: "Catulle, odi te" (English, Latin)
• By José Manuel Godínez Samperio: "Princeps Mosquiniae (Leader of Mosquinia)" (Spanish, English, Latin)
• By K. Kelly: "Cruciamentum (Torture)" (English, Latin)
• By B. Letaroff: "Ad Res Gestas" (Latin)
• By Justin Mansfield: "Formica (Ant)" (English, Latin)
• By Vojin Nedeljkovic: "(Sine Nomine)" (Latin)
• By Ira Taubman: "Cum recte laudas (When rightly you praise)" (English, Latin)
• By Martin Chodorek, Steven Conte, & Matthew Trafford: "Mihi Mingiendum Est" (Latin)
• Your Poetry Here!

• By Manus aka Daniel Barkalow: Animus Monstratus (in Latin and English)
• By the Cloacopoetae Classicophilologici Vindobonenses: Corpus Cloacopoeticum Classicophilologicum Vindobonense
• By Meredith Dixon: Latin Translations of Some Popular Songs (in Latin and English)
• Gunther: (in Latin, originals in Portuguese)
  • "Lingua Lusitana" translated from the original "Língua Portuguesa", by Olavo Bilac.
  • "Cometes" also translated from the Portuguese "O Cometa", by Olavo Bilac.
• Draco aka Konrad Kokoszkiewicz: "Basiliscus" sive "De Summa Turpitudine" (in Latin)
• Ted Loker (in Latin & English)
• Steinar Midtskogen:
  • The Poem of the Ring (in Latin, original in, I believe, the Black Speech of Sauron)
  • De Studiis (in Latin)
• Marc Mosko (no relation):
  • "Incerto Tempore" (Latin)
  • "Occulta in Nocte" (Latin & English)
• The Obscuri: Poemata (in Latin, some also in Dutch)
• Roma Ryan: The lyricist for the Irish singer Enya has written a few songs in Latin. (in Latin & English)
  • "Cursum Perficio" (on Watermark) [Enya. Watermark. New York, Time Warner, 1988]
  • "Afer Ventus" (on Shepherd Moons) [Enya. Shepherd Moons. New York: Time Warner, 1991]
  • "Pax Deorum" (on The Memory of Trees) [Enya. The Memory of Trees. New York: Time Warner, 1995]
  • "Tempus Vernum" (on A Day without Rain) [Enya. A Day without Rain. New York: Time Warner, 2000]
• Cat Stevens: (in Latin & English, but a poor scan)
  • "O Caritas" (on Catch Bull at Four) [Cat Stevens. Catch Bull At Four. Beverly Hills, CA USA: A&M Records, 1972]

• Do-It-Yourself: How to Write Latin Verse by Harry C. Schnur, on this site.
• Latin Lexicon at the Perseus Project of Tufts University.
• Reading Latin Poetry at the Classics Pages
• Latin Grammar Aid and Wordlist at Notre Dame
• Viva Voce: Latin Poetry Recited contains sound files of various Latin meters.

Notes

1. As of June 8, 1999, all of the poems are first converted to XML (eXtensible Markup Language) files, which I then convert to HTML files with a program. This means that I can more easily make changes to the entire site. I am actually working on some of those now. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the site, please let me know.
2. I use circumflexes instead of macrons. If your browser cannot read circumflexes, please follow the links marked "no macrons." On the other hand, if your browser can display Unicode entities, follow the links marked "true macrons."
3. Thanks to Gundega Korsts, who pointed out that Roma Ryan is the author of Enya's lyrics.
4. I have a lot of housekeeping to do. Bear with me if you have sent me something and I haven't added it yet.
5. Many Latin poems use just their first words as a title, so the title of a poem is not guaranteed to reflect the theme of the poem.
6. I am now using Gildersleeve and Lodge's Latin Grammar, still in print from Thomas Nelson and Sons. (I was impressed.)
7. Thanks to Ralph Aulenta, who found a satisfactory solution to the problem of indenting lines. ( , if you're interested.)