Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
Ulysses	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1842
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be]	William Shakespeare	1603
Sappho	Sara Teasdale	1911
The Bird-Choros of Ion	Euripides	1924
From “Autobiography of My Alter Ego”	Yusef Komunyakaa	2022
何日/What Day	Paisley Rekdal	2021
Burial of the Sardine	Giannina Braschi	2001
Miracles	Giannina Braschi	2011
Talking to His Reflection in a Shallow Pond	Ai	2018
The Chil’ren Might Know	Dominique Christina	2018
Guadalajara Cemetery	Ai	2018
Poor Lazarus	Laura Da’	2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last]	William Shakespeare	2017
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]	William Shakespeare	2017
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world]	William Shakespeare	2017
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus]	William Shakespeare	2017
Penelope Unravels	Francisca Aguirre	2016
Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene II [Good fellows all]	William Shakespeare	2016

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