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Title Author Year
September Helen Hunt Jackson 1886
Soldiers Washing (1927) Ricardo Pau-Llosa 2017
Meditation Charles Baudelaire 2017
Little Box Marilyn Nelson 2016
I Am a Little World Made Cunningly (Holy Sonnet V) John Donne 2015
Ode to an Encyclopedia James Arthur 2015
Mnemonic Li-Young Lee 1986
Passer Mortuus Est Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
Love for This Book Pablo Neruda 1966
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
U-Pick Orchards Danusha Laméris 2025

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