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Title Author Year
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
Late Night Ode J. D. McClatchy 1991
Richard’s Not Such a Die-Hard Christian After All Michelle Bitting 2026
Gender Euphoria and the Superbloom Jennifer Huang 2025
Night Before Nicholas Friedman 2025
What the Birds Do Leonel Sánchez Lopez 2025
I’d Have You Think of Me Djuna Barnes 1923
Song: Let Us Go Back Vita Sackville-West 1917
In Nunhead Cemetery Charlotte Mew 1921
Nostalgia Jessie Redmon Fauset 1927
From “Vita Nuova” [To every captive soul and gentle heart] Dante Alighieri 2024
Coming Out of the Shower Armen Davoudian 2024
Going to the Picnic Julius C. Wright 1906
In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman’s Imagination torrin a. greathouse 2019
The Weather-Cock Points South Amy Lowell 1921
Singing Funeral féi iká shumarí 2022
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals Catherine Pierce 2020
I Have Folded My Sorrows Bob Kaufman 1965
Midsummer Léonie Adams 1925
a brief meditation on breath Yesenia Montilla 2020

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