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Title Author Year
To George Sand: A Desire Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
When We Look Up Denise Levertov 1966
San Antonio Naomi Shihab Nye 2004
People and a Heron Robinson Jeffers 1925
Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog Kaveh Akbar 2025
This Island on Which I Love You Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021
Shadows Langston Hughes 1923
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
Prayer for My Immigrant Relatives Lory Bedikian 2018
My Mama moved among the days Lucille Clifton 2017
Legendary Nicole Sealey 2017
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016
Love in the Morning Annie Finch 2014
it was a dream Lucille Clifton 1992
During Wind and Rain Thomas Hardy 1917
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
Jet Tony Hoagland 1998

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