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Title Author Year
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Iris David St. John 1991
Dora Diller Jack Prelutsky 1984
God Went to Beauty School Cynthia Rylant 2003
Prayer Jorie Graham 2002
War Photograph Kate Daniels 2002
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Words Dana Gioia 2001
Notes from the Other Side Jane Kenyon 1993
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Low Tide on Grand Pré Bliss Carman 2026
Unforgotten William Rose Benét 2025
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Whatever the ways of the world, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
In life I’m no longer capable of love, Diane Seuss 2025
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
Earth’s Complaint Margaret Cavendish 1653
Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku Tony Medina 2024

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