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Title Author Year
Center of the World Safiya Sinclair 2016
Enough Ellen Bass 2015
Ode to the Unbroken World, Which Is Coming Thomas Lux 2015
Love’s Body Jonathan Wells 2015
Fox Caki Wilkinson 2015
City Lights 1961 Diane di Prima 2014
Survivor Guilt Ron Padgett 2014
Living in Numbers Claire Lee 2013
Flood James Joyce 1917
Ebb Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600
My life has been the poem I would have writ Henry David Thoreau 1849
Ascension John Donne 1610
After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains John Keats 1899
Wall Street at Night Lola Ridge 1920
In Passing Stanley Plumly 2000
Langston Blue Jericho Brown 2010
Since I’m Condemned Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Back Yard Carl Sandburg 1916
Noel Anne Porter 2006

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