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Title Author Year
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
How Heid E. Erdrich 2018
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018
Militants to Certain Other Women Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
Beat! Beat! Drums! Walt Whitman
At Night Stanley Plumly 2019
Circe H.D. 1921
Even the Gods Nicole Sealey 2017
American Syntax Ching-In Chen 2016
Mist Henry David Thoreau 2015
When There Were Ghosts Alberto Ríos 2014
In Summer Time Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4 William Blake 1793
The City’s Love Claude McKay 1922
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
The Sorrow of Love W. B. Yeats 1893
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982

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