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Title Author Year
The Hammock Li-Young Lee 2001
Song of Myself, 3 Walt Whitman 1891
To Elsie William Carlos Williams 1962
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
Before William Ernest Henley 1908
My Life Closed Twice Cameron Awkward-Rich 2023
Dawn Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
from Song of Myself XXIV
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60) William Shakespeare 2016
Lamia [Left to herself] John Keats 1820
A Song for Many Movements Audre Lorde 1978
Mexican Heaven José Olivarez 2023
Our Land Langston Hughes 1925
[suppose] E. E. Cummings 1925
The Flower George Herbert 2018
The Watch Danusha Laméris 2016
Mariposa Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905

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