- Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha"
- Drew Gardner's "Chicks Dig War"
- Stanley Kunitz's "My Mother's Pears"
- Sylvia Plath's "Daddy"
- Bernie Taupin's "Rocket Man". Oh . . . wait . . .
- John Ashbery's "Daffy Duck in Hollywood"
- Elizabeth Alexander's "Praise Song for the Day"

