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Title Author Year
Burning the Old Year Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Among the Multitude Walt Whitman 1891
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 1858
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) William Shakespeare 1609
After the Winter Claude McKay 1922
The Moon David Berman 2013
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
It Is Important To Be Something Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2018
OBIT [The Blue Dress] Victoria Chang 2018
Cardiology Rafael Campo 2018
Storm H.D. 2017
A Bell, Still Unrung Safiya Sinclair 2016
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
Wild Swans Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope 1734
Say over again... (Sonnet 21) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850

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