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Title Author Year
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
Mexico City Blues [182nd Chorus] Jack Kerouac 1959
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea Cecilia Woloch 2010
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick 1670
And You Thought You Were the Only One Mark Bibbins 2003
Ode on Periods Bernadette Mayer 1998
Tar C. K. Williams 1994
Of a Sun She Can Remember Eleanor Wilner 1998
A Mystery James Ephraim McGirt 1906
Reunion Tour Jericho Brown 2025
a letter to charlie parker Dior J. Stephens 2025
10,000 Acres Burned Keetje Kuipers 2025
La Guerre (II) E. E. Cummings 2025
The War Against Birthdays Josh Bell 2025
Empty my heart of thee — (146) Emily Dickinson 1929
Going to the Picnic Julius C. Wright 1906
Math Class Mary Crow 1996
Gitanjali 17 Rabindranath Tagore 1913

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