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Title Author Year
“Song for Almeyda,” II. Gayl Jones 2022
Fireworks Edith Sitwell 1918
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
The Haunted Palace Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
Autumn, New York, 1999 Patricia Spears Jones 2016
Blue with Collapse Thomas Lux 2016
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006
Late Autumn Wasp James Hoch 2007
The Changing Light Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2000
i didn’t eat the sun ire’ne lara silva 0026
A Litany Of Atlanta W. E. B. Du Bois 1922
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
The Coliseum Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Epistemology Catherine Barnett 2017
All the Thoughts at a Football Game Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Horses at Midnight Without a Moon Jack Gilbert 2012
To Dorothy Marvin Bell 2000

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