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Title Author Year
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon 1920
The Coliseum Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1878
Oughta Be a Woman June Jordan 2017
The Bronze Legacy Effie Lee Newsome 1922
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013
The First Night Billy Collins 2008
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
Summer Grass Carl Sandburg 1928
Winter Stores Charlotte Brontë 1846
News Item Dorothy Parker 1926
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926
The Dawn’s Awake! Otto Leland Bohanan 1922
My Friends Ali Power 2017
Let Everything Happen to You Natalie Eilbert 2015
Blue Dementia Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609

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