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Title Author Year
The Sirens James Russell Lowell 1840
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
No Explosions Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Satan Jamil B. Holway 2000
The Tropics in New York Claude McKay 1922
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
River to River Hai-Dang Phan 2019
We Were All Odysseus in Those Days Amorak Huey 2019
On Pleasure Kahlil Gibran 1923
Natural History Sam Hamill 2018
Love James Russell Lowell 2016
That Music Always Round Me Walt Whitman 1891
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Dream-Land Edgar Allan Poe 1844
Into the Dusk-Charged Air John Ashbery 1997
The Storm Theodore Roethke 1975
Forever Margaret Ross 2026
Niagara José María Heredia 1827
Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo 2023
One Girl Sappho 1870

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