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Title Author Year
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980
It’s easy to invent a life (41) Emily Dickinson 1929
The Sadness of Clothes Emily Fragos 2015
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson 1837
The Cowboy James Tate 2008
Indigo Ellen Bass 2019
The Anxious Dead John McCrae 2018
The Vanity of Human Wishes Samuel Johnson 2018
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
Survival Guide Joy Ladin 2018
Noel: Christmas Eve 1913 Robert Bridges 1920
The Giaour [Unquenched, unquenchable] Lord George Gordon Byron 1813
The Paper Nautilus Marianne Moore 1923
Booker T. And W.E.B. Dudley Randall 2009
Borderbus Juan Felipe Herrera 2017
The Desolate Field William Carlos Williams 1921
The Year Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
The Supple Deer Jane Hirshfield 2011

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