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Title Author Year
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Any day now you will have the ability to feed the name] Terrance Hayes 2017
Instructions for Stopping Dana Levin 2017
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath Natasha Trethewey 2016
I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come Joseph Auslander 2016
All the Names We Will Not Know Naomi Shihab Nye 2015
Ode to an Encyclopedia James Arthur 2015
Perfect for Any Occasion Alberto Ríos 2014
Thoughts Walt Whitman 1867
In Summer Time Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Passer Mortuus Est Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Civilization Carl Phillips 2011
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Delta Flight 659 Denise Duhamel 2009
Playgrounds Laurence Alma-Tadema 1903
Porch Swing in September Ted Kooser 2005
A Negro Love Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
Late September Charles Simic 2002
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850

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