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Title Author Year
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1898
Dream Song 1 John Berryman 1959
Good Bones Maggie Smith 2016
O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman 1891
Her Kind Anne Sexton 1981
The Second Coming W. B. Yeats 1920
She Passed This Way Djuna Barnes 1923
The Black Heralds César Vallejo 1918
Some days of wine and pastry Samiya Bashir 2023
The Palace-Burner Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt 1874
Exposition Lauren Russell 2023
Faces in the Street Henry Lawson 1903
Marie Bashkirtseff Said Annie Charlotte Dalton 1926
Motor Disturbance Kenward Elmslie 1971
Sneaky Pete Kenward Elmslie 1975
Visual Radios Kenward Elmslie 1975
from “A Season in Hell [Delirium I]” Arthur Rimbaud 1920
Vote Your Way to Hell Chia-Lun Chang 2023
Self-Care Is a Psy-Op Jameka Williams 2023
Hornets’ Nest Paul Mariani 2020

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