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After Lunch with Frank O'Hara
Craig Cotter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

Allegiance
Francine J. Harris

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2012

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1800

Black Swan
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Blood, Tin, Straw
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1999

Cassandra
Pierre De Ronsard

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1553

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1812

Comus
John Milton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1634

Don Juan
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1824

Dover Beach
Leslie Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Easter 1916
Charles Townshend

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

Execution Poems
George Elliott Clarke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Girl Hurt
E.J. Miller Laino

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

God's Trombones
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1927

Helen in Egypt
H. D.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1924

Here, Bullet
Brian Turner

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Idylls of the King
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1859

In My Craft or Sullen Art
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1934

Island
Him Mark Lai

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Jerusalem Delivered
Torquato Tasso

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1581

Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 1855

Life Under Water
Maura Dooley

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1992

Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Mahabharata
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Meeting at Night
Robert Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1845

Moving Day
Terence Young

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2021

Murder
David Halliday

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

Next to Normal
Brian Yorkey

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2008

Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Omeros
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1990

Open
Lisa Moore

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2002

Phenomena: Poems
Cathryn Hankla

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2021

Piers Plowman
William Langland

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1377

Ramayana: A Retelling
Daljit Nagra

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Red Doc>
Anne Carson

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2013

Seeing Things
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

Sorrow
Claribel Alegría

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1978

Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Study for the World's Body
David St. John

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Tales from Ovid
Ovid, Ted Hughes, ed.

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1997

The Auroras of Autumn
Wallace Stevens

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1950

The Ballad of the White Horse
G. K. Chesterton

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1911

The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems
Barton Sutter

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1993

The Carrying
Ada Limón

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1590

The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1308

The Emperor of Ice Cream
Brian Moore

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

The Golden Gate
Vikram Seth

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1991

The Legend of Good Women
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

The Lusiads
Luís de Camões

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1572

The Time of Voice
Robert Kelly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1969

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems
David Bowles

Nonfiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 2018

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Troilus and Criseyde
Geoffrey Chaucer

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1385

We Are Seven
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798