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Title Author Year
Dream Variations Langston Hughes 1994
Coherence in Consequence Claudia Rankine 2017
maggie and milly and molly and may E. E. Cummings 1956
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot 1915
My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth 1807
the poem is a dream telling you its time Marwa Helal 2022
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
Enough Andru Defeye 2022
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman 1891
Still I Rise Maya Angelou 1978
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood William Wordsworth 1807
The Splendid Body Rebecca Lindenberg 2023
Dream Nest Dana Levin 2023
Chickens Kate Gale 2022
Her Kind Anne Sexton 1981
Somewhere Else Adam J. Gellings 2023
Oakland in Rain Aria Aber 2023
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, II Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1891

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