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Title Author Year
Wedding Cake Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Gila Rigoberto González 2012
The Everyday Enchantment of Music Mark Strand 2012
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Corinna's Going a-Maying Robert Herrick 1648
Electricity Geoffrey Nutter 2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick 1670
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
Going There Jack Gilbert 2001
Someone Dennis O’Driscoll 2005
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98) William Shakespeare 1609
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton & Everybody Shows Up with Their Instrument Instead Daniel B. Summerhill 2026
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021

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