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Title Author Year
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
Calculations Brenda Cárdenas 2016
Images Jaime Manrique 2016
Call of the Night Djuna Barnes 2016
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
A Man’s A Man For A’ That Robert Burns 1795
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] Eliza Lee Follen 1832
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
First Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 2005
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
Kaddish, Part I Allen Ginsberg 1984
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
A Litany Of Atlanta W. E. B. Du Bois 1922
American Sonnet for the New Year Terrance Hayes 2022
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926

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