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Title Author Year
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
On a Line from Valery (The Gulf War) Carolyn Kizer 1996
Bananas Lorna Dee Cervantes 2005
So It Goes Howard Altmann 2025
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
In Nunhead Cemetery Charlotte Mew 1921
Little Things Marion Strobel 1921
Gitanjali 18 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Men Dorothy Parker 1926
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom Dorothy Parker 1926
Waiting for Your Call Aria Aber 2021
The Show Wilfred Owen 1921
Bonfire Opera Danusha Laméris 2016
Equinox Elizabeth Alexander 2016
Mnemonic Li-Young Lee 1986
My life has been the poem I would have writ Henry David Thoreau 1849
Choose Life André Breton 2003
Moonlight Sara Teasdale 1920
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Flood Miyazawa Kenji 2007

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