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Title Author Year
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Randall Jarrell 1969
And You . . . Jason Allen-Paisant 2024
Haiku [for you] Sonia Sanchez 2018
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Foul Ball David Bottoms 2018
These Hands, If Not Gods Natalie Diaz 2013
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d Walt Whitman 1850
It Begins With the Trees Ada Limón 2022
An Enigma Edgar Allan Poe 2018
My Brother At 3 AM Natalie Diaz 2012
They Flee from Me Thomas Wyatt 1557
Violin Nikki Wallschlaeger 2020
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 2016
Autobiography of Eve Ansel Elkins 2015
Travelling William Wordsworth 1802
The Day Is Done Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1845
The Merry-Go-Round Aldous Huxley 1918
In the House with No Doors Sarah Kay 2023

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