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Title Author Year
What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet Tso-le-oh-woh 1853
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Song of Myself, 14 Walt Whitman 1891
Trench Duty Siegfried Sassoon 2018
The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice Brenda Hillman 2018
The Dead-Beat Wilfred Owen 2018
A Dream Pang Robert Frost 2018
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
Morning on Shinnecock Olivia Ward Bush-Banks 1916
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
Sonnet VI Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Losing the 440-Yard Dash Afaa Michael Weaver 2016
I Am a Little World Made Cunningly (Holy Sonnet V) John Donne 2015
Mist Henry David Thoreau 2015
Swimming Carl Phillips 2015
Porn (audio only) Dorothea Lasky 2014
After the Election Sarah Messer 2012
The Dead Mina Loy 1920
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
Just One of Those Things Cole Porter 1935

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