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Title Author Year
Anchorage Joy Harjo 2016
Call of the Night Djuna Barnes 2016
All the Thoughts at a Football Game Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
Summer Stars Carl Sandburg 1920
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens 1915
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
The Tree Sparrows Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Sally Wen Mao 2015
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006
My hero bares his nerves Dylan Thomas 2003
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964

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