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Title Author Year
Girls on the Town, 1946 Rita Dove 2020
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird Walt Whitman
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1903
I Have Read the Whole Moon Emily Skaja 2019
A Reading from the Book of Exile Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Song of the Open Road, 13 Walt Whitman 1891
Songs (IV) E. E. Cummings 1923
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49) William Shakespeare 1904
So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnet 21) William Shakespeare 1904
Doing Rosmarie Waldrop 2016
Disarmament John McCrae 2018
Haiku [i am moving in] Sonia Sanchez 2018
It Was Summer Now and the Colored People Came Out Into the Sunshine Morgan Parker 2018
To Science Edgar Allan Poe 1902
Israfel Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Summer in the Ordinary William Bryant Logan 2018
Goodnight, Great Summer Sky Rose Styron 2017
Poem about My Rights June Jordan 2017
The War in Colors Dunya Mikhail 2017

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