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Title Author Year
Prayer Galway Kinnell 2018
Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown Saeed Jones 2014
On the Freedom of the Press Benjamin Franklin 2017
It was not Death, for I stood up (510) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Castaway William Cowper 1799
A Green Crab’s Shell Mark Doty 1995
The Shapes of Leaves Arthur Sze 1998
The Divine Image William Blake 1789
[The dream seems universal, I’ve heard it] Dan Sociu 2026
On Clothes Kahlil Gibran 1923
Circe H.D. 2018
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
this kind of fire Charles Bukowski 2009
Lucky Tony Hoagland 1998
Deer Dancer Joy Harjo 1990
Adonais, 49–52, [Go thou to Rome] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821
For every bird a nest (79) Emily Dickinson 1929
Remembering Our First Parties Erin Rose Coffin 2023
Verse for a Certain Dog Dorothy Parker 1926
Our Land Langston Hughes 1925

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