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Title Author Year
Assume the Position Jive Poetic 2020
A Memorial Lucian B. Watkins 1903
To The Memory Of The Brave Americans Philip Freneau 1783
The Aged Pilot Man Mark Twain 1872
Blind Fish Yusef Komunyakaa 2020
When We’re in Bed and You Take Out Your Mouth Guard, I Know It’s On Melissa Crowe 2020
Basketball feat. Galileo & EPMD Adrian Matejka 2019
Pontoosuce Herman Melville 2019
From “Be Recorder” Carmen Giménez 2019
My Prayer Henry David Thoreau 1895
The Centenarian’s Story Walt Whitman
Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2019
O’ Noblesse O’ Nikky Finney 2019
Aleppo Hala Alyan 2019
Song of the Open Road, 11 Walt Whitman 1891
My Great-Grandmother’s Egg Thief Roy G. Guzmán 2019
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing George Robert Sims 2018
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me (Sonnet 132) William Shakespeare 1904
How can I then return in happy plight (Sonnet 28) William Shakespeare 1904
To My Ward-Sister Vera Brittain 2018

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