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Title Author Year
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 1949
Não, João Tracy K. Smith 2026
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926
Soulwork Tracy K. Smith 2021
The Dry Tortugas Molly Fisk 2019
Divine Poems (134) José Garcia Villa 2019
Everything That Ever Was Tracy K. Smith 2018
Kudzu Saeed Jones 2015
’N’em Jericho Brown 2014
Birthday Richie Hofmann 2015
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
Christabel [excerpt] Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
Tithonus Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1860
That Sure is My Little Dog Eleanor Lerman 2005
I’m a Fool to Love You Cornelius Eady 1997
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024

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