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Title Author Year
Flying at Night Ted Kooser 1980
Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All Judith Viorst 1981
[The dream seems universal, I’ve heard it] Dan Sociu 2026
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
2020 Catherine Barnett 2022
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
Youth and Age W. B. Yeats 1970
A Coney Island of the Mind, 20 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Endymion Oscar Wilde 2018
OBIT [The Blue Dress] Victoria Chang 2018
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
Recollections of My Christmas Tree Mary Ruefle 2016
gathering words María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado 2016
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014

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