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Title Author Year
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes 1994
Going Home the Longest Way Around Pat Schneider 2005
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
To the White Fiends Claude McKay 1922
Or I shall live your epitaph to make (Sonnet 81) William Shakespeare 1904
Hermes of the Ways H.D. 2016
As a Portent David Baker 2014
Brokeheart: Just like that Patrick Rosal 2014
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
The Niagara River Kay Ryan 2005
Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick 1648
Stealing The Scream Monica Youn 2003
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever Wanda Coleman 2001
The Sluggard Isaac Watts 1715
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
Who will believe my verse in time to come (Sonnet 17) William Shakespeare 1904

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