Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Having a Coke with You	Frank O’Hara	1966
The Shield of Achilles	W. H. Auden	1955
Archaic Torso of Apollo	Rainer Maria Rilke	1995
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	William Carlos Williams	1962
Why I Am Not a Painter	Frank O’Hara	2008
Ode on a Grecian Urn	John Keats	1820
Fidelity	William Ward Butler	2026
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July	Billy Collins	1998
Pier 52	Omotara James	2021
The Changing Light	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	2000
The Language of the Birds	Richard Siken	2011
In Praise of Dreams	Gary Soto	2020
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
Love the Light-Giver	Michelangelo Buonarroti	1897
Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty	Tommye Blount	2025
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
Hagar in the Wilderness	Tyehimba Jess	2013
Richard Asks to Sort Books Together	Jimin Seo	2024
What He Thought	Heather McHugh	1994
Pietà	Rainer Maria Rilke	1922

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