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Atlas


By Jennifer Elise Foerster

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Marshlands


By E. Pauline Johnson

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Invocation


By Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

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On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf


By Alexander Posey

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Fantasy


By Gwendolyn Bennett

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Walking to Sleep


By Richard Wilbur

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If 2017 was a poem title


By Mahogany L. Browne

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You cannot put a Fire out—


By Emily Dickinson

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The Paradox


By Paul Laurence Dunbar

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An Eternity


By Archibald MacLeish

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Oklahoma Home

By Elise Paschen

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Glassmaker

By Peter Halstead

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Digital event 12/4: Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place

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October text archive update: Romantic poetry

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Nine Words We Share films added

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June text archive update

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Our aim is to expand access to poetry and educational poetry materials, gathering great poems from across places, eras, and traditions.

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