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Title Author Year
The Visionary Emily Brontë 1846
Letter Home Natasha Trethewey 2002
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
My 24 Hour Version Lois Red Elk 2017
Devotion Tracy K. Smith 2026
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation Anthony Cody 2022
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (Sonnet 62) William Shakespeare 1904
The End Wilfred Owen 2018
The Grave of Keats Oscar Wilde 2018
Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1878
Election Year Richard Blanco 2016
Autumn, New York, 1999 Patricia Spears Jones 2016
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio 2000
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever Wanda Coleman 2001
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026
Disappointed Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913

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