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Title Author Year
Rain Music Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me Monica Sok 2020
Today Matthew Zapruder 2019
My glass shall not persuade me I am old (Sonnet 22) William Shakespeare 1904
Dead Winifred M. Letts 2018
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017
Losing the 440-Yard Dash Afaa Michael Weaver 2016
United Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
Porn (audio only) Dorothea Lasky 2014
Someday I'll Love Roger Reeves (audio only) Roger Reeves 2013
The Forest in the Axe André Breton 2003
The Outlet (162) Emily Dickinson 1860
Phantom Noise Brian Turner 2010
Portrait of a Lady T. S. Eliot 1915
When I Heard at the Close of Day Walt Whitman 1891
America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4 William Blake 1793
Peace on Earth William Carlos Williams 1917
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
Just One of Those Things Cole Porter 1935
Someone Dennis O’Driscoll 2005

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