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Title Author Year
The Sky Natalie Shapero 2017
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face James Weldon Johnson 2017
The Time Machine Laura Kasischke 2017
Lunch Break Francisco Aragón 2016
The Visitors of Night Frank Stanford 2016
Compass Joan Naviyuk Kane 2015
In the City of Night John Gould Fletcher 1921
Vision Robert Penn Warren 1922
Thoughts Walt Whitman 1867
Papyrus Ezra Pound 1916
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth David Rosenthal 1920
Astraea Redux John Dryden 1660
Merciles Beaute Geoffrey Chaucer 1375
Day [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2003
Summer Song William Carlos Williams 1917
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
A Table in the Wilderness Li-Young Lee 2001
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
You Tell Us What to Do Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1991
Late September Charles Simic 2002

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