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Title Author Year
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm Carl Phillips 2004
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
Song at Capri Sara Teasdale 1925
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Christian Campbell 2025
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
The Death of the Old Year Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
Shadow River Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Men Say They Know Many Things Henry David Thoreau 1943
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
Sonnet III: “Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring” Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
A Benign Self-Portrait N. Scott Momaday 2019
Aunt Chloe's Politics Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1891
Kid, these are train tracks, Jeffrey Bean 2018
A Dream Pang Robert Frost 2018
Christmas in the Heart Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
The Bombing of Baghdad June Jordan 2017

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