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Title Author Year
Dirge Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1851
A Shropshire Lad, XIII A. E. Housman 1896
At the Gym Mark Doty 2002
O Little Root of a Dream Paul Celan 2000
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
The Things I Love Scottie McKenzie Frasier 1920
The Weather-Cock Points South Amy Lowell 1921
The Battle-Field William Cullen Bryant 1878
A Poem for Maunakea Kealoha 2019
Insurrecto Chris Santiago 2022
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021
The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780
Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me Monica Sok 2020
Song of Myself, 25 Walt Whitman 1891
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war (Sonnet 46) William Shakespeare 1904
Pain Scale Catherine Barnett 2018
Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil] Sonia Sanchez 2018
Hurry Marie Howe 2017
Notes on the Peanut June Jordan 2017

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