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Title Author Year
After the Winter Claude McKay 2015
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
poem in praise of menstruation Lucille Clifton 1991
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant 1832
Sonnet 100 Lord Brooke Fulke Greville 1633
Dolphin Robert Lowell 1976
The Distant Moon Rafael Campo 1994
In View of the Fact A. R. Ammons 2005
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
The Tropics in New York Claude McKay 1922
Out of Research Into Reveries Mai Der Vang 2019
The courage that my mother had Edna St. Vincent Millay 1954
Nature Aria Yi Lei 2018
declaration Andrés Montoya 2017
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
Crows Marilyn Nelson 2016
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
A Man’s A Man For A’ That Robert Burns 1795
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011

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