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Title Author Year
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
Corinna's Going a-Maying Robert Herrick 1648
Ophelia to the Court Meghan O’Rourke 2010
way [excerpts] Leslie Scalapino 1988
A Primer of the Daily Round Howard Nemerov 1960
Apples Grace Schulman 2007
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Trees in the Garden D. H. Lawrence 1964
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
The Death of Eve Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
From “The Lady of the Lake” (Canto I) Sir Walter Scott 1810
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
U-Pick Orchards Danusha Laméris 2025
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Ocean Robinson Jeffers 1928
Old England Claude McKay 1912
Against Despair: The Kid Goat Nickole Brown 2018

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