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Title Author Year
The Aged Pilot Man Mark Twain 1872
The Centenarian’s Story Walt Whitman
The Sicilian’s Tale; The Bell of Atri Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863
Song of the Open Road, 11 Walt Whitman 1891
I Never Figured How to Get Free Donika Kelly 2019
Song of Myself, 34 Walt Whitman 1891
To Zeke Ellen Bass 2019
Georgia Dusk Jean Toomer 1923
So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnet 21) William Shakespeare 1904
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest (Sonnet 11) William Shakespeare 1904
At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America—November, 1912 Alan Seeger 2018
Wild with All Regrets Wilfred Owen 2018
Burn Janice N. Harrington 2018
Forsythe Avenue Haibun Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Wild Pansy Lisa Bellamy 2018
In the Beginning God Said Light Mary Szybist 2018
Cupid Amber Flora Thomas 2018
The Still Small Voice John Rollin Ridge 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria] Terrance Hayes 2017
Morning in the Burbs Marcus Wicker 2017

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