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de Góngora: Of Human Ambition

Espiru: Catalan

Radcliffe: Air

de la Fontaine: To Promise is One Thing to Keep it, Another

Walker: For My People

Chagall: Mine Alone is the Country in My Soul

Week 17: Birthdays

Harjo: Praise the Rain

Service: The Cremation of Sam McGee

Marriott: Prairie Graveyard

Cogswell: New Brunswick

Davies: Frosty Porch Blues

Collins: Canada

Week 16: Canada

Rexroth: Proust’s Madeleine

Bradstreet: To Her Father with Some Verses

Bottoms: Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt

Monsour: Fifteen

Lee: The Gift

Heaney: Digging

Week 15: Dads

Sherwood: The World in the Evening

Chitwood: Summer Job

Youn: A Parking Lot in West Houston

Piercy: More Than Enough

Walcott: Bleeker Street, Summer

Smith: Summer of the Ladybird

Week 14: Summer

Laviera: lady liberty

Brooks: Boy Breaking Glass

Villanueva: You, If No One Else

McKay: America

Espada: The Sign in My Father’s Hands

Angelou: Caged Bird

Week 13: Protest

Hardy: The Last Performance

Hardy: How She Went to Ireland

Hardy: The Darkling Thrush

Hardy : The Voice

Hardy: At Lulworth Cove a Century Back

Week 12: Thomas Hardy

Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth

Binyon: For the Fallen

Melville: Shiloh: A Requiem

Letts: The Spires of Oxford

McCrae: In Flanders Fields

Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address

Week 11: Memorial Day

Rossetti: Up-Hill

Zapruder: Graduation Day

Mazur: Poem for Christian, My Student

Baudelaire: Be Drunk

Guest: It Couldn’t Be Done

Horton: The Graduate Leaving College

Week 10: Graduation

Kasdorf: What I Learned From My Mother

Nordhaus: A Dandelion for My Mother

Mills: How You Know

Fogel: If I Sleep While My Baby Sleeps

Lansky: On Mother’s Day

Poe: To My Mother

Week 9: Moms

Browning: My Last Duchess

Browning: Memorabilia

Browning: Among the Rocks

Browning: Love in a Life

Browning: Epilogue

Browning: My Star

Week 8: Robert Browning

Whitman: Out From Behind His Mask

Sandburg: Mask

Divakaruni: Tiger Mask Ritual

Lindenberg: Carnival

Thomas: O Make Me a Mask

Dunbar: We Wear the Mask

Week 7: Masks

Longfellow: Paul Revere’s Ride

Adams: The Divine Source of Liberty

Wheatley: On Virtue

Freneau: The American Soldier

Bradstreet: The Author to Her Book

Emerson: Concord Hymn

Week 6: Patriot’s Day and Colonial America

Grimké: The Eyes of My Regret

Li: Ancient Air

Dickinson: “Hope” is the thing with feathers

McKay: After the Winter

Kalidasa: Look to This Day

cummings: [as freedom is a breakfastfood]

Week 5: Poems With Friends

Feld: Leaving Egypt

Rossetti: Good Friday

Levi: Passover

Housman: Easter Hymn

Wilde: Easter Day

Herbert: Easter Wings

Week 4: Easter and Passover

Wilbur: A Storm in April

Whittier: What the Birds Said

Wood: Berkshires in April