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Title Author Year
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016
Chess Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2015
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch] Claudia Rankine 2014
Election Day, November, 1884 Walt Whitman 1891
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata Natasha Trethewey 2012
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness Anne Boyer 2011
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
The Outlet (162) Emily Dickinson 1860
In Praise of Their Divorce Tony Hoagland 2010
Midwinter Day [Excerpt] Bernadette Mayer 1982
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in] John Keats 1820
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Some Days Billy Collins 1998
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity John Milton 1645
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
Boston Aaron Smith 2005
Tongue Raffi Joe Wartanian 2026
The Thing Dead on the Road Brian Gyamfi 2025
Golden Hour Jennifer Polson Peterson 2022

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