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Title Author Year
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
In the Waiting Room Elizabeth Bishop 1979
maggie and milly and molly and may E. E. Cummings 1956
anyone lived in a pretty how town E. E. Cummings 1976
My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth 1807
Fern Hill Dylan Thomas 1937
Sick Shel Silverstein 2003
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
The Raincoat Ada Limón 2018
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll 1871
Moonlily Marilyn Nelson 2017
The Swing Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood William Wordsworth 1807
Chickens Kate Gale 2022
Willow, Stop Weeping Sally Wen Mao 2025
[Dear Geese] Spring Ulmer 2025
Detail from “What No One Could Have Told Them” C. D. Wright 2025
Breaking bread with phonemes 2025
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
Unconditional Love Song C. D. Wright 2025

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