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Title Author Year
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [I stood in Venice] Lord George Gordon Byron 1818
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
Tender Buttons [Breakfast] Gertrude Stein 1914
Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC Aaron Tyler Hand 2024
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
When It Comes Down To It Ada Limón 2022
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation Anthony Cody 2022
Disappointed Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
May Day Sara Teasdale 1920
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
The 19th Amendment & My Mama Mahogany L. Browne 2020
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing Walt Whitman 1892
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror Mary Jo Bang 2017
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
The Dream of Shoji Kimiko Hahn 2016
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016

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