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Poem Title Poet Poetic Form Publication Year
On Imagination Phillis Wheatley Couplet 1773
Why, Oh Why, the Doily? Janice N. Harrington Other 2010
The Fish Elizabeth Bishop Free verse 1946
Daddy Sylvia Plath Free verse 1960
Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath Free verse 1962
The Man-Moth Elizabeth Bishop Free verse 1946
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop Free verse 1955
Filling Station Elizabeth Bishop Free verse 1965
Questions of Travel Elizabeth Bishop Free verse 1965
The Armadillo Elizabeth Bishop Quatrain 1965
In the Waiting Room Elizabeth Bishop Free verse 1976
The Pink Dog Elizabeth Bishop Tercet 1979
One Art Villanelle 1976
Commander Lowell Robert Lowell Other 1959
"To Speak of Woe That Is In Marriage" Robert Lowell Couplet 1959
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell Free verse 1959
Skunk Hour Robert Lowell Free verse 1959
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell Quatrain 1960
Epilogue Robert Lowell Free verse 1977
Dream Song 1 John Berryman Other 1964
Dream Song 4 John Berryman Other 1964
Dream Song 5 John Berryman Other 1964
Dream Song 14 John Berryman Other 1964
Dream Song 29 John Berryman Other 1964
Middle Passage Robert Hayden Free verse 1962
Runagate Runagate Robert Hayden Free verse 1962
A Letter from Phillis Wheatley Robert Hayden Blank verse 1978
Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden Blank verse 1962
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves Robert Hayden Quatrain 1978
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery Gwendolyn Brooks Ballad 1945