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Title Author Year
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Chansons Innocentes: I E. E. Cummings 1976
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
Touching and Being Touched Jenny George 2026
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
Freedom and Truth Margaret Fuller 1859
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn 2017
From “The Windy City” Carl Sandburg 1928
Imagination William Rose Benét 1914
Go Youth James Tate 1994
Pebbles Frank Dempster Sherman 1892
The Flight of the Crows Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Sick4Sick torrin a. greathouse 2022
Observation Dorothy Parker 1926
Breaking [News] Noor Hindi 2021
Fruit of the Flower Countee Cullen 1925
Essay on Thunder Sumita Chakraborty 2020
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018

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