| Beautiful lyrics, to some | 25 |
| 2009 inauguration recitation | 28 |
| "Ulalume," e.g. | 25 |
| "The Raven," e.g. | 27 |
| "Thanatopsis," e.g. | 29 |
| "Lamia" is one | 24 |
| Browning bread source? | 22 |
| Limericks, for instance | 23 |
| They're recited at a slam | 29 |
| They rhyme with reason | 22 |
| They often have good rhythm | 27 |
| Their feet don't walk | 25 |
| Robert W. Service output | 24 |
| Haiku and senryu, e.g. | 22 |
| Donne's gift to posterity | 29 |
| Couplets and quatrains | 22 |
| Burns bread and butter? | 23 |
| Bishop or Pope's output | 27 |
| "Trees" and others | 28 |
| Sentimentalized writings | 24 |
| Precious metered writing | 24 |
| Literary journal fodder | 23 |
| Forte of Keats or Shelley | 25 |
| Richard Purdy Wilbur, e.g. | 26 |
| One inspired by Calliope | 24 |
| Coffeehouse entertainer | 23 |
| Langston Hughes, for one | 24 |
| Timotheus or Phrynichus, e.g. | 29 |
| Person creating rhymes | 22 |
| Ezra Pound's profession | 27 |
| Coffeehouse attraction, maybe | 29 |
| Worker with a lot of stress? | 28 |
| W.H. Auden or E.E. Cummings | 27 |
| User of scanning devices | 24 |
| Robert Browning, for one | 24 |
| Richard Purdy Wilbur, for one | 29 |
| Rap composer, in a way | 22 |
| Peasant's musical partner | 29 |
| One with stressing work? | 24 |
| One with idyll musings? | 23 |
| One who's well versed | 25 |
| One who works with feet | 23 |
| One known for fancy foot work | 29 |
| One concerned with feet | 23 |
| Natasha Trethewey, for one | 26 |
| Lord Byron or Lord Tennyson | 27 |
| Laureate figure, maybe | 22 |
| His output is verse and verse | 29 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks, e.g. | 22 |
| Dickinson or Frost, e.g. | 24 |
| Countee Cullen was one | 22 |
| Coffeehouse reader, perhaps | 27 |
| Annie Finch or Rita Dove | 24 |
| "___ and Peasant" | 27 |
| Kind of license or justice | 26 |
| Like Shelley's works | 24 |
| Kind of justice or license | 26 |
| Written in quatrains, e.g. | 26 |
| Word with justice or license | 28 |
| Type of license or justice | 26 |
| Like Lovelace's lines | 25 |
| Like Frost's works | 22 |
| Like e'en or e'er | 25 |
| Flowing off the page, maybe | 27 |
| Type of reading or slam | 23 |
| Maya Angelou's forte | 24 |
| Man Phoebe Snow sang about | 26 |
| John Masefield's field | 26 |
| It may be performed at a slam | 29 |
| Emily Dickinson's field | 27 |
| Countee Cullen's forte | 26 |
| Burns books, typically | 22 |
| Berryman's bequest | 22 |
| "Dead ___ Society" | 28 |
| Ruth Lilly Prize winners | 24 |
| Masters and Jonson, e.g. | 24 |
| Some open mic performers | 24 |
| Lovelace and Frost, for two | 27 |
| Angelou and Cummings, e.g. | 26 |
| They're well-versed | 23 |
| Sonneteers, for instance | 24 |
| Performers at some readings | 27 |
| People concerned with feet | 26 |
| Ones inspired by Helicon | 24 |
| Lovelace's colleagues | 25 |
| Keats and Horace, for two | 25 |
| Frost and Burns, for two | 24 |
| Dickinson and Whittier | 22 |
| Burns and Allen Ginsberg | 24 |
| Browning, Gray, and others | 26 |
| 74- and 90Across, e.g. | 22 |
| "Dead --- Society" | 28 |
| Piece in a '90s fad game | 28 |
| Juice cap in a 1990s fad | 24 |
| Faddish disk of the 1990s | 25 |
| Faddish disk of the '90s | 28 |
| Fad disc of the '90s | 24 |
| Collectible cap of the 1990s | 28 |
| '90s milk cap disc | 22 |
| Walt Kelly's possum | 23 |