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Title Author Year
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
The Book of Questions, III Pablo Neruda 2001
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
The Sluggard Isaac Watts 1715
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
Gitanjali 13 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation Anthony Cody 2022
For the Bird Singing Before Dawn Kim Stafford 2022
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (Sonnet 62) William Shakespeare 1904
Invocation Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 1860
Imitation Edgar Allan Poe 2018
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Ditty Kevin Young 2016
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013
Summer Stars Carl Sandburg 1920
Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy Terrance Hayes 2010
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991

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