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Title Author Year
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
In the Waiting Room Elizabeth Bishop 1979
maggie and milly and molly and may E. E. Cummings 1956
anyone lived in a pretty how town E. E. Cummings 1976
My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth 1807
Fern Hill Dylan Thomas 1937
Sick Shel Silverstein 2003
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
The Raincoat Ada Limón 2018
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll 1871
Moonlily Marilyn Nelson 2017
The Swing Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood William Wordsworth 1807
Chickens Kate Gale 2022
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
“Artificial neurons can be trained to kill humans without humans overseeing” K. A. Hays 2026
Alternate Endings to Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much” Music Video Canese Jarboe 2026
[And I return to the field] Iain Haley Pollock 2026
Alliterative Autobiography [Classroom] Adam Giannelli 2026
Burning Candle Austin Araujo 2026

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