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Title Author Year
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2015
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
Ashes of Life Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
The Moment Marie Howe 2011
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual Pamela Spiro Wagner 2009
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
The Drunken Fisherman Robert Lowell 1976
Hap Thomas Hardy 1898
Lucky Tony Hoagland 1998
Gooseberry Season Simon Armitage 2005
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
Stealing The Scream Monica Youn 2003
Prayer Jorie Graham 2002
Beyond Even This Maggie Anderson 1991
Words Dana Gioia 2001

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