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Title Author Year
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007
Western Civ 101 Alexandria Peary 2022
Moving Day Alexandria Peary 2019
The Gallery Alexandria Peary 2019
The Word Alexandria Peary 2008
In the courtyard Alexandria Peary 2011
Sonnet branches Alexandria Peary 2022
Throbbings Jamil B. Holway 2000
It was All for Him Ameen Rihani 1905
sea of the poem (an annex so we may dream backwards) Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 2022
Remember the Puns & Brashbrandy Matt Gonzalez 2022
To The Sonnet Ameen Rihani 1905
The Dilettante: A Modern Type Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Night Needs No Stars Youmna Chlala 2022
Verse Reporting Late Arrival at a Conclusion Dorothy Parker 1926
To Louise Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
God Could Not Make Her a Poet Cornelius Eady 2022
Last Mattress Marilyn Nelson 2022
Whittier Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Why I Write Poetry Leah Kindler 2022

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