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Title Author Year
Lo! In the orient when the gracious light (Sonnet 7) William Shakespeare 1904
Tears Edward Thomas 2018
Ways to Harm a Thing Kaveh Akbar 2017
XXXV [A man saw a ball of gold in the sky] Stephen Crane 2017
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
Weeds Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
What Do We Do—Now Ellen Hagan 2017
The Ghetto Lola Ridge 2016
Ceremonial Eduardo C. Corral 2015
Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You Colleen J. McElroy 2015
The Thinker William Carlos Williams 2015
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
Magdalen Walks Oscar Wilde 1881
Curse of the Cat Woman Edward Field 2007
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Wild Iris (audio only) Louise Glück 1992
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
The Sandman Margaret Thomson Janvier 1912
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle Wallace Stevens 1918
The Gift Sara Teasdale 1907

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