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Title Author Year
Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You Colleen J. McElroy 2015
Patsy Cline Jennifer Chang 2015
For Trayvon Martin Reuben Jackson 2015
Thoughts Walt Whitman 1867
The Mower Against Gardens Andrew Marvell 1668
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65) William Shakespeare 1609
Motherhood, 1951 Ai 2010
Day [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2003
A Short Testament Anne Porter 2006
Noel Anne Porter 2006
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
The Poems I Have Not Written John Brehm 2005
Boston Aaron Smith 2005
Loading a Boar David Lee 2004
In the Land of Words Eloise Greenfield 2004
Late September Charles Simic 2002
Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day Cynthia Zarin 2002
When that I was and a little tiny boy William Shakespeare 1602

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