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Title Author Year
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter] William Shakespeare 2016
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
Magdalene Marie Howe 2013
On the Beach at Night Alone Walt Whitman 1891
Left Nikky Finney 2011
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
Star Quilt Roberta Hill Whiteman 1984
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
Winter Song Wilfred Owen 1931
Yet Do I Marvel Countee Cullen 1927
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d. Mark Twain 1885
From “Nox” [Autopsy is a term historians use ...] Anne Carson 2010
Sonnet to Liberty Oscar Wilde 1881
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Forest Phillips 2019
Jakarta, January Sarah Kay 2019
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017

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