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Title Author Year
Double Exposure May Swenson 2016
Prison Reginald Dwayne Betts 2016
In the Dream Jenny Johnson 2016
From “Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1” Anne Waldman 2016
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends W. B. Yeats 1899
On Virtue Phillis Wheatley 1773
The Flight Sara Teasdale 1915
SPAM's carbon footprint Craig Santos Perez 2010
The Dandelion Vachel Lindsay 1916
The Heart of the Woman W. B. Yeats 1899
The City’s Love Claude McKay 1922
A Shropshire Lad, XIII A. E. Housman 1896
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
The Death of Eve Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Touching and Being Touched Jenny George 2026
Proof Cornelius Eady 2026
From “This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay” Cody-Rose Clevidence 2023

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