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Title Author Year
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 1858
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026
The Heart is the capital (138) Emily Dickinson 1929
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
This Beautiful Planet Dorothea Lasky 2023
Or I shall live your epitaph to make (Sonnet 81) William Shakespeare 1904
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Cotton Candy Edward Hirsch 2010
To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore 1921
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
Idyll Siegfried Sassoon 1920
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant 1832
Among the Multitude Walt Whitman 1891
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
This Evening Let’s Adrienne Rich 2004
Memory of France Carlie Hoffman 2024
The Crying of Water Arthur Symons 1901
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023

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