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Title Author Year
Her Lips Are Copper Wire Jean Toomer 1923
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight Jane Hirshfield 1997
The Gift Li-Young Lee 1986
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884
The Castaway William Cowper 1799
Grace Joy Harjo 1990
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
Peace Path Heid E. Erdrich 2016
Autobiography of Eve Ansel Elkins 2015
What He Thought Heather McHugh 1994
Fable Ralph Waldo Emerson 1899
Ballad of the Goodly Fere Ezra Pound 1956
The Song Of The Chattahoochee Sidney Lanier 1877
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Walt Whitman 1891
The Black Heralds César Vallejo 1918
Dear New Blood Mark Turcotte 2020
little prayer Danez Smith 2017
Greensickness Laurel Chen 2022
In Praise of Dreams Gary Soto 2020
On Beauty Kahlil Gibran 1923

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