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Title Author Year
Kid, this is the first rain Jeffrey Bean 2018
Dreamers Siegfried Sassoon 2018
The Conqueror Worm Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Ocean Nathaniel Hawthorne 1825
Pirate Story Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Holy Thursday William Blake 1794
A Book of Music Jack Spicer 1958
The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping Adrian Castro 2005
The Poem as Mask Muriel Rukeyser 2004
Rain Claribel Alegría 2003
Before Disappearing into the Fog Michelle Bitting 2026
Whoroscope Samuel Beckett 1930
Kink Imani Davis 2023
It Was the Animals Natalie Diaz 2020
Declaration Tracy K. Smith 2018
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
Revelation Robert Frost 2018
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra Marilyn Chin 1987
On Marriage Marilyn Hacker 2016
Midwinter Day [Excerpt] Bernadette Mayer 1982

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