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Title Author Year
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
[The dream seems universal, I’ve heard it] Dan Sociu 2026
How to Continue Loving the World Despite Years of Impediment Marcus Wicker 2026
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
When I Became La Promesa Peggy Robles-Alvarado 2020
Endymion Oscar Wilde 2018
Love’s Lantern Joyce Kilmer 1914
Recollections of My Christmas Tree Mary Ruefle 2016
The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel 2016
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Opal Amy Lowell 1919
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023
2020 Catherine Barnett 2022
Battery Anne Waldman 2016

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