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Title Author Year
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
Folded Luis Muñoz 2026
[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
Mildew Charlotte Dacre 2021
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
Senior Discount Ali Liebegott 2016
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
Call of the Night Djuna Barnes 2016
Invitation to Love Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
Summer Stars Carl Sandburg 1920
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
Ode on a Line by Marie Howe Michelle Bitting 2026
Sisyphus Shara Lessley 2026
Let’s love each other Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
The Weight of Love Pat Schneider 2019

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