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Title Author Year
Letter Home Natasha Trethewey 2002
Carrion Comfort Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Devotion Tracy K. Smith 2026
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
The Crying of Water Arthur Symons 1901
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904
The Affliction Marie Howe 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817

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