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Title Author Year
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
Untitled Jesús Castillo 2018
The Waits Margaret Deland 2017
Square Cells Jenny Xie 2017
Nature George Herbert 2017
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016
Hunch Jay Parini 2016
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Shark Lord Alfred Douglas 1897
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
Life in a Love Robert Browning 1855
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one June Jordan 1989
Two Countries Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell 1976
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
After He’s Decided to Leave Elizabeth Acevedo 2019
No longer mourn for me when I am dead (Sonnet 71) William Shakespeare 1904

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