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Title Author Year
After Words Kimberly Blaeser 2018
Prayer Galway Kinnell 2018
Enigma Leonora Speyer 1921
Any Common Desolation Ellen Bass 2016
Mexico City Blues [113th Chorus] Jack Kerouac 1959
Lines: 'When the Lamp is Shattered' Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
A Green Crab’s Shell Mark Doty 1995
A Cry from an Indian Wife Emily Pauline Johnson 1900
My Life Was the Size of My Life Jane Hirshfield 2015
Utopian Alicia Ostriker 2016
Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker 2016
Before I Was a Gazan Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt] Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
Autumn Richard Garcia 2006
When Malindy Sings Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
[The child who speaks despite the rule] Dan Sociu 2026
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2022
Fall Didi Jackson 2019
Song Edgar Allan Poe 2018

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