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Title Author Year
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost 1916
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
On Joy and Sorrow Kahlil Gibran 1923
Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón 2017
On the Circuit W. H. Auden 1965
A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters (audio only) June Jordan 1992
At Pegasus Terrance Hayes 1999
The More Loving One W. H. Auden 1960
Dream Song 4 John Berryman 1959
The Index Rena Priest 2020
Everyday We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera 2011
Still I Rise Maya Angelou 1978
The Splendid Body Rebecca Lindenberg 2023
Dream Nest Dana Levin 2023
Chickens Kate Gale 2022
[since feeling is first] E. E. Cummings 1926
The Change Tony Hoagland 2003
Her Kind Anne Sexton 1981

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