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Title Author Year
The Star Jane Taylor 1806
Ecce Puer James Joyce 1936
Story—A Cold Yoo Heekyung , Stine An 2026
I Was Told the Sunlight Was a Cure Hanif Abdurraqib 2022
The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1842
Song of Myself, 26 Walt Whitman 1891
America, I Sing Back Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 2016
Consolation Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina Jack Gilbert 2009
Fame is a fickle food (1659) Emily Dickinson 1957
Night Bird Danusha Laméris 2024
After the War: Purple Flowers Spilling from the Windows Linda Nemec Foster 2001
Song of Myself, 49 Walt Whitman 1891
The Spires of Oxford Winifred M. Letts 2018
The Flower George Herbert 2018
Bringing the Shovel Down Ross Gay 2016
Reading to My Father Jorie Graham 2016
The Tower W. B. Yeats 1928
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Walt Whitman 1855
Freeway 280 Lorna Dee Cervantes 1981

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