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Title Author Year
Dirge Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1851
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Billy Collins 1998
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
The White Horse D. H. Lawrence 1964
[The rage that shatters a man into children,] César Vallejo 2026
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
The Means to Attain Happy Life Martial 2026
Do Not Run Farnaz Fatemi 2024
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
The Weather-Cock Points South Amy Lowell 1921
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Inupiaq Women dg nanouk okpik 2022
To a Young Dancing Girl Elsa Gidlow 1923
Much Later Gertrude Stein 1926
Indian Summer Dorothy Parker 1926
The Spanish Needle Claude McKay 1922

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