Poems

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Title	Author	Year
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley	Jupiter Hammon	1787
Dear March—Come in—(1320)	Emily Dickinson	1890
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
To Sir Henry Wotton	John Donne	1625
Dear J.	Kazim Ali	2013
Letter Home	Natasha Trethewey	2002
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door]	Alexander Pope	1735
Dear Friends	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
The Soldier	David Ferry	1999
Dear Tiara	Sean Thomas Dougherty	2011
Dear P. [If you are]	Victoria Chang	2017
To a Comrade	Claude McKay	1912
To a Magazine	Mary Ruefle	2016
Dear Migraine,	Gail Mazur	2011
Midnight Air in Louisville	Afaa Michael Weaver	2022
Letter from a Haunted Room	Lisa Sewell	2006
Dear Miss Emily	James Galvin	2003
On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form	Paul Guest	2003
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree	D. H. Lawrence	1920
Another Night at Sea Level	Meg Day	2017

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