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Title Author Year
The Creation James Weldon Johnson 1927
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Why I Am Not a Painter Frank O’Hara 2008
Lullaby W. H. Auden 1940
His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley 1776
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
Bleezer’s Ice Cream Jack Prelutsky 1984
Dream Variations Langston Hughes 1994
Thunderstorm Stack Anne Carson 2015
Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
To a Poor Old Woman William Carlos Williams 1962
The Way Through the Woods Rudyard Kipling 1910
I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman 1891
The Writer Richard Wilbur 1969
The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1–20 Homer 2000
The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams 1962
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
When Giving Is All We Have Alberto Ríos 2014
Love at First Sight Wisława Szymborska 2016
Proverbs of Hell William Blake 1790

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