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Title Author Year
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
The Hug Thom Gunn 2009
Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick 1670
Japanese Lullaby Eugene Field 1892
American Liberty Philip Freneau 1775
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
I Love You Sara Teasdale 1911
Southern Road Sterling A. Brown 1980
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Into the Dusk-Charged Air John Ashbery 1997
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
One of the Lives W. S. Merwin 1996
Yellow Beak Stephen Dobyns 2005
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
The Iliad, Book XVIII [Divine Armor] Homer 2023
A Dozen Cocktails Please Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 2026
[To love two people is to have it] Ulayya bint al-Mahdi 2026
Thoughts at the Grave Bianca Stone 2026
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
38. Shedding the Old Samantha Thornhill 2025

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