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Title Author Year
Eletelephony Laura Elizabeth Richards 1932
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?] Walt Whitman 1891
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter] William Shakespeare 2016
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
Correct the Record, Can We? Adam Falkner 2026
Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley 1885
How to Triumph Like a Girl Ada Limón 2018
A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsberg 1984
The Lamb William Blake 1789
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
You Foolish Men Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
Wait Galway Kinnell 2016
Walking Around Pablo Neruda 2016
Fire and Ice Robert Frost 1920
Victory Sherman Alexie 2016
Love Comes Quietly Robert Creeley 2016
The Sea Is History Derek Walcott 2007
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Edward Fitzgerald 1859
The War Works Hard Dunya Mikhail 2005

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