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Title Author Year
Sonnet-To Science Edgar Allan Poe 1829
Winter: My Secret Christina Rossetti 1862
Electricity Geoffrey Nutter 2009
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890
1990 special Charles Bukowski 2007
A Ditty Sir Philip Sidney 2012
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
O Little Root of a Dream Paul Celan 2000
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
Tar C. K. Williams 1994
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
To a Wreath of Snow Emily Brontë 1908

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