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Title Author Year
To a Young Dancing Girl Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
A Farewell Langston Hughes 1926
The Call of the Wild Alexander Posey 1910
Wild Horses Paisley Rekdal 2020
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur Ellen Bass 2020
Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
The Task of Naming Me Sharon Olds 2019
An Adieu Florence Earle Coates 1913
Song of Myself, 47 Walt Whitman 1891
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144) William Shakespeare 1904
For Sister Gwen Brooks Sonia Sanchez 2018
To Isadore Edgar Allan Poe 2018
In Each Look Our Years Edwin Torres 2017
I guess it was my destiny to live so long June Jordan 2017
The Bombing of Baghdad June Jordan 2017
The Swan F. S. Flint 2017
Sorrow D. H. Lawrence 1916
Galaxy Love Gerald Stern 2017
Migration Ana Božičević 2017

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