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Title Author Year
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Interim Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941
American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training Kortney Morrow 2020
The Road at My Door W. B. Yeats 1970
Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild J. P. Grasser 2020
Common Things Christopher Kondrich 2019
The Floral Apron Marilyn Chin 2019
A Valentine Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Home Carl Sandburg 1916
Why Whales Are Back in New York City Rajiv Mohabir 2017
FaceTime Clint Smith 2017
When I Read the Book Walt Whitman 1891
Prison Reginald Dwayne Betts 2016
When my love swears that she is made of truth (Sonnet 138) William Shakespeare 2016

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