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Title Author Year
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
Suicide’s Note Langston Hughes 1926
After the Winter Claude McKay 1922
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Images Jaime Manrique 2016
The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel 2016
Autumn, New York, 1999 Patricia Spears Jones 2016
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Grasshopper Ron Padgett 2011
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Life in a Love Robert Browning 1855
History Carol Ann Duffy 2003
Question May Swenson 1978
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964

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