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Title Author Year
See It Through Edgar Guest 1917
Jasmines Claude McKay 1921
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Basket of Figs Ellen Bass 2002
Acceptance Robert Frost 1928
Salt and Sand Kathryn Kysar 2026
The Song of Despair Pablo Neruda 1969
I look at the world Langston Hughes 2009
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Wilfred Owen 2018
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Edward Fitzgerald 1859
The Present Crisis James Russell Lowell 1845
Woodchucks Maxine Kumin 1972
Dream Song 1 John Berryman 1959
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards Kaveh Akbar 2017
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
A New National Anthem Ada Limón 2018
A Blessing James Wright 2005
Lover Ada Limón 2021
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs] Pablo Neruda 2016

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