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Title Author Year
Adolescence Claude McKay 2017
Again Ross Gay 2016
15¢ Futures Marilyn Nelson 2015
Let Everything Happen to You Natalie Eilbert 2015
Meeting and Passing Robert Frost 2013
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
To My Mother Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
A Litany Gregory Orr 2002
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore 1961
The Oxen Thomas Hardy 1915
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
Autumnal Rubén Darío 1916
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
Navajo Mountain Norla Chee 2022
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926
Soulwork Tracy K. Smith 2021
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54) William Shakespeare 1904

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