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Title Author Year
Dear P. Victoria Chang 2017
Wonder and Joy Robinson Jeffers 1916
Like Any Good American Brynn Saito 2013
Danse Russe William Carlos Williams 1962
Dolphin Robert Lowell 1976
The Crystal Gazer Sara Teasdale 1926
The Tropics in New York Claude McKay 1922
A Coney Island of the Mind, 20 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel 2016
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
poem in praise of menstruation Lucille Clifton 1991
A Man’s A Man For A’ That Robert Burns 1795
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] Eliza Lee Follen 1832
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant 1832
Sonnet 100 Lord Brooke Fulke Greville 1633
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
Ghost Paul Mariani 1996
The Distant Moon Rafael Campo 1994

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