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Title Author Year
The Fire Katie Ford 2014
Thoughts Walt Whitman 1867
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Waifs and Strays Arthur Rimbaud 1912
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311) Emily Dickinson 1890
Poem Charles Bernstein 1978
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
To Rosemounde Geoffrey Chaucer 1400
Day [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2003
What Is Broken Is What God Blesses Jimmy Santiago Baca 2009
Stereo Anne Waldman 2008
Beach Glass Amy Clampitt 1997
Gooseberry Season Simon Armitage 2005
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
Late September Charles Simic 2002
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror Agha Shahid Ali 1991
The Suitor Jane Kenyon 1996
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
Gertrude Stein Mina Loy 1924
Statement of Purpose Kyle Carrero Lopez 2026

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