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Title Author Year
The Hollow Men T. S. Eliot 1925
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
The Creation James Weldon Johnson 1927
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why) Nikki Giovanni 2017
To make a prairie (1755) Emily Dickinson 1951
For Keeps Joy Harjo 2019
Künstlerroman Sarah Ghazal Ali 2026
The Seedling Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667
St. Telemachus Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1892
Hyperion John Keats 1820
I speak with the future. Jane Hirshfield 2026
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980
Move Alicia Ostriker 2018
Arts & Craft Farid Matuk 2025
All but Death can be (89) Emily Dickinson 1929
Post Impressions (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
It’s easy to invent a life (41) Emily Dickinson 1929
Social Distancing Juan Felipe Herrera 2020

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