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Title Author Year
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
Super Samson Simpson Jack Prelutsky 1990
Someone Dennis O’Driscoll 2005
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
ghost ranch Kristin Lueke 2026
A Song of Enchantment Walter de la Mare 1913
Anthem for America Varsha Saraiya-Shah 2025
To My Dead Child Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Loom Lee Trumpfheller 2024
Gitanjali 63 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Wall Donald Justice 2004
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode Airea D. Matthews 2019
Indian Summer Dorothy Parker 1926
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Praise Angelo Geter 2020
Hybrida: A Zuihitsu Tina Chang 2019
In the Heart of a Rose George Marion McClellan 1916
I Tried to Write a Poem Called “Imposter Syndrome” and Failed Emilia Phillips 2020
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things] Terrance Hayes 2019

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