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Title Author Year
Midwinter Day [Excerpt] Bernadette Mayer 1982
Woods in Winter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2025
Curriculum Vitae Lisel Mueller 1996
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [I stood in Venice] Lord George Gordon Byron 1818
Siri as Mother Hala Alyan 2024
2020 Catherine Barnett 2022
Nimbawaadaan Akiing / I Dream a World Margaret Noodin 2021
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
Dreams Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
The Ghost’s Petition Christina Rossetti 2018
The Willow-Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Four Sonnets About Food Adrienne Su 2017
Senior Discount Ali Liebegott 2016
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
Birthday Richie Hofmann 2015
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
America Robert Creeley 1991
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926

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