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Title Author Year
[The dream seems universal, I’ve heard it] Dan Sociu 2026
Verse for a Certain Dog Dorothy Parker 1926
Gone is Gone Mark Wunderlich 2019
The Anxious Dead John McCrae 2018
Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done Victoria Chang 2017
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
That Music Always Round Me Walt Whitman 1891
Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty Thomas James 2008
The Castaway William Cowper 1799
Drowning Creek Ada Limón 2022
Unfortunate Coincidence Dorothy Parker 1926
A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald Sonia Sanchez 2018
Poem about My Rights June Jordan 2017
Night Waitress Lynda Hull 2017
Coffee Matthew Dickman 2017
Applesauce Ted Kooser 2017
The Destruction Of Sennacherib Lord George Gordon Byron 1815
this kind of fire Charles Bukowski 2009
Question May Swenson 1978
The Idea of Order at Key West Wallace Stevens 1954

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