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Title Author Year
Blessings Jay Parini 2016
Crows Marilyn Nelson 2016
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
The Apparition John Donne 1633
Man Carrying Thing Wallace Stevens 1980
Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All Judith Viorst 1981
cutting greens Lucille Clifton 1974
Fire Strike Margaret Noodin 2026
Come out, come close. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
The Lost Breath of Trees Colleen J. McElroy 2024
Ode to People Who Hate Me Carmen Giménez 2023
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2022
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
Hatred Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Something to Believe In Carl Phillips 2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 8 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
The Hour and the Ghost Christina Rossetti 2018
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Sally Wen Mao 2015
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015

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