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Title Author Year
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Songs for the People Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1896
Disabled Wilfred Owen 2018
An Enigma Edgar Allan Poe 2018
I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At José Olivarez 2017
These Hands, If Not Gods Natalie Diaz 2013
The Star Jane Taylor 1806
Emergency Haying Hayden Carruth 2006
What He Thought Heather McHugh 1994
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!] William Shakespeare 1608
Farewell Francisca Aguirre 2016
Winter Walter de la Mare 1906
The Return Ezra Pound 1913
The Song Of The Chattahoochee Sidney Lanier 1877
Incident Countee Cullen 1927
Jazzonia Langston Hughes 1926
The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm Wallace Stevens 1990
On Good and Evil Kahlil Gibran 1923
October Hills John Rollin Ridge 2017

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