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Title Author Year
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
To Night Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821
Green D. H. Lawrence 1917
Numbness Phillip Lopate 2009
Song of the Deathless Voice Abram Joseph Ryan 1880
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
Lucky Tony Hoagland 1998
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
Ars Poetica (cocoons) Dana Levin 2005
Ode on Periods Bernadette Mayer 1998
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
The Aim Was Song Robert Frost 1921
The Atom No. 18 Sarah Mangold 2022
Soulwork Tracy K. Smith 2021
Ode on an Abandoned House Hayan Charara 2021
Object Permanence Hala Alyan 2021
Pestilence Philip Freneau 1795
This Morning Luci Tapahonso 2020

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