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Title Author Year
Poem Man Ray 1924
Assurance James Oppenheim 1924
The Vanity of Existence Philip Freneau 1781
To President Wilson Alice Duer Miller 1915
[Ah! the waving lespedeza,] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d” Kimiko Hahn 2019
To Rhea Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
a litany for the possessed Jaki Shelton Green 2005
On How to Use this Book Sarah Gambito 2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 11 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Songs (III) E. E. Cummings 1923
Chartres Edith Wharton 2019
God’s Will Nick Flynn 2019
January Helen Hunt Jackson 1893
Vestigial Bones Rajiv Mohabir 2019
Childhood William Archila 2018
:: Searching for My Own Body :: Yesenia Montilla 2018
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10) William Shakespeare 1904
On Buying and Selling Kahlil Gibran 1923
Fame Charlotte Mew 1921

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