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Title Author Year
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
Gitanjali 103 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
For the Bird Singing Before Dawn Kim Stafford 2022
News Item Dorothy Parker 1926
From “The Trees Witness Everything” Victoria Chang 2021
Kumulipo Queen Liliʻuokalani 1897
After He’s Decided to Leave Elizabeth Acevedo 2019
The Weight of Sweetness Li-Young Lee 2017
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz Matthew Olzmann 2016
My Doubt Jane Hirshfield 2016
Let Everything Happen to You Natalie Eilbert 2015
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
Ave Maria Frank O’Hara 1964
To My Mother Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Say over again... (Sonnet 21) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923
Stanzas Emily Brontë 1846
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Incurable Dorothy Parker 1928
Autumnal Rubén Darío 1916

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