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Title Author Year
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Haunted Seas Cale Young Rice 1921
Falling James Dickey 1992
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one June Jordan 1989
Working Late Louis Simpson 1988
Rock and Hawk Robinson Jeffers 1995
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
In Memory of M. B. Anna Akhmatova 1973
Daughters, 1900 Marilyn Nelson 1990
Apart (Les Separes) Louis Simpson 1997
Re- Dana Isokawa 2026
Tongue Raffi Joe Wartanian 2026
Lament of a Man for His Son Anonymous 1925
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
Gitanjali 10 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel Catherine Pierce 2020
Midsummer Léonie Adams 1925
Edgar Allan Poe Timothy Thomas Fortune 1905
Freedom Saadi Youssef 2019
Self-Portrait with Dad’s Baseball Glove Nathan Hoks 2019

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