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Title Author Year
The Two Philip Levine 2002
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Testament Carl Sandburg 1918
The Wild Kindness Campbell McGrath 2024
Ten Things I Do Every Day John Keene 2021
Hard Times Claude McKay 1912
Odyssey of Big Boy Sterling A. Brown 1922
Gitanjali 42 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Brass Spittoons Langston Hughes 1922
The Shropshire Lad, III A. E. Housman 2018
Olympus Matthew Olzmann 2025
Evolution Margaret Ross 2020
A Christmas Doll Margaret Widdemer 1915
Sonnet Alice Duer Miller 1915
My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1 John Gallaher 2019
Sonnet II Alan Seeger 2018
Engines Within the Throne Cathy Park Hong 2012
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina Jack Gilbert 2009
Holiday cheer or holiday void— Haleh Liza Gafori 2024
I Won’t Wash the Dishes Anymore Cristiane Sobral 2018

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