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Title Author Year
Catching Fire Indran Amirthanayagam 2026
Spot Didi Jackson 2026
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
You’re the Top Ellen Bass 2024
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad Wallace Stevens 1921
Gitanjali 34 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy 1917
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
Spell for the End of Grief Amie Whittemore 2015
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d. Mark Twain 1885
If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is Patrick Rosal 2018
Black Glass Soliloquy Ben Mirov 2012
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free William Wordsworth 1807
Thursday Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
Blueprint Tom Sleigh 2007
Parents William Meredith 1980
What Is Good on January 8th, 2026? Kimiko Hahn 2026
III James Joyce 1907

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