Poems

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Title	Author	Year
The Shield of Achilles	W. H. Auden	1955
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	William Carlos Williams	1962
Ode on a Grecian Urn	John Keats	1820
Why I Am Not a Painter	Frank O’Hara	2008
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]	Homer	1715
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
Thirteen Ways of Looking	Ama Codjoe	2023
The Kiss	Sasha Pimentel	2017
Replica of The Thinker	Matthew Olzmann	2016
The Artist Signs Her Masterpiece, Immodestly	Danielle DeTiberus	2020
O’ Noblesse O’	Nikky Finney	2019
The Great Figure	William Carlos Williams	1962
Hagar in the Wilderness	Tyehimba Jess	2013
War Photograph	Kate Daniels	2002
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
Trans Study: Untitled 4 (Facial Expression)	Cameron Awkward-Rich	2023
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic	Grisel Y. Acosta	2025
The Man with the Hoe	Edwin Markham	1898
Joseph Cornell, with Box	Michael Dumanis	2007

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1955