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Title Author Year
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
Ts'ai Chi'h Ezra Pound 2017
Chess Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2015
The Thinker William Carlos Williams 2015
Complaint William Carlos Williams 1921
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Phantom Noise Brian Turner 2010
I Do Not Love Thee Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1829
Sojourns in the Parallel World Denise Levertov 1996
On Growing Old John Masefield 1919
I’m not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Spring Night Sara Teasdale 1915
Behind Stowe Elizabeth Bishop 1927
Deathscape Lullaby Cynthia Cruz 2022
Sometimes There Is A Day Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
California Rafael Campo 2020
[’Twas the new moon!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Song of Myself, 16 Walt Whitman 1891

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