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Title Author Year
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
Ekphrasis: Her Expression Yiannis Doukas 2026
The Wild Swans Li Qingzhao 1918
Orpheus William Shakespeare 1623
Mowing Robert Frost 1915
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman 1850
A Song for Many Movements Audre Lorde 1978
On the Circuit W. H. Auden 1965
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly Ariana Brown 2026
Acknowledgement of Lenape Lands Denise Low 2024
Song of My House Being Battered by the Autumn Winds Tu Fu 2025
The Hurricane José María Heredia 1918
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
Uriel Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Dreams Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
Dreamers Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels Paola Capó-García 2018
Where the Sky Meets the Earth W. Todd Kaneko 2017
Thirty Lines About the ’Fro Allison Joseph 2017
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905

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