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Title Author Year
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
How Can It Be I Am No Longer I Lucie Brock-Broido 1997
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
Empty my heart of thee — (146) Emily Dickinson 1929
The Spirit of Poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1886
Ghosts Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation Kyle Tran Myhre 2024
Tenebris Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Inupiaq Women dg nanouk okpik 2022
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
a dream of foxes Lucille Clifton 1996
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires Forrest Gander 2020
Testimony: 1968 Rita Dove 2020
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922

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