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Title Author Year
1951 Brenda Hillman 2025
The War Against Birthdays Josh Bell 2025
For a Birthday Sophie Jewett 1910
Autumn Leaves Margaret Daramola 2021
De Days Dat Are Gone Claude McKay 1912
October XXIX, 1795 William Stanley Braithwaite 1927
At Sixty-Five Henri Cole 2022
Sara in Her Father’s Arms George Oppen 2008
Youth and Age W. B. Yeats 1970
Move Alicia Ostriker 2018
Another Day Craig Morgan Teicher 2018
After Party Noah Blaustein 2018
Ongoing Jenny Xie 2018
Prayer Galway Kinnell 2018
Party Games Dora Malech 2017
Essay on November Stephen Kuusisto 2017
To Yahola, On His First Birthday Alexander Posey 2017
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017
Between the Dragon and the Phoenix C. Dale Young 2016
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900

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