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Title Author Year
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Late September Charles Simic 2002
Prayer Jorie Graham 2002
To the Oracle at Delphi Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2001
Words Dana Gioia 2001
Voyage to Cythera Charles Baudelaire 1994
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Low Tide on Grand Pré Bliss Carman 2026
She says, being forbidden: Leonora Speyer 2026
Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku Tony Medina 2024
From “. . . Again” Mark Nowak 2023
LXXXVIII (The Sonnets) Ted Berrigan 2005
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022
Sunflowers Jenny George 2022
A Death Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Voices of the Air Katherine Mansfield 1923
Not Once Sharon Olds 2022
And That Mysterious Word Holy Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Everything Needs Fixing Karla Cordero 2021

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