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Title Author Year
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Sally Wen Mao 2015
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
The Long Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2013
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
Youth and Age W. B. Yeats 1970
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Left-Handed Sugar Jane Hirshfield 2011
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
A Kite for Aibhin Seamus Heaney 2010
Sonnet V Mahmoud Darwish 2007
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018

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