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Title Author Year
Natural History Sam Hamill 2018
Serenade William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman 1850
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
Tree of Knowledge, No. 7B Victoria Chang 2026
Revolution is the pod (33) Emily Dickinson 1929
In the Forest Oscar Wilde 1909
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
From “A Season in Hell [Delirium I]” Arthur Rimbaud 1920
What the Silence Said Marie Howe 2021
The Teller of Tales Gabriela Mistral 2003
A Coney Island of the Mind, 8 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
To My Brother Vera Brittain 2018
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Serenade Djuna Barnes 2017
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016

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