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Title Author Year
A New Law Greg Delanty 2010
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
Peace Henry Vaughan 1650
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
A Negro Love Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Autumn Grasses Margaret Gibson 2003
La Figlia Che Piange T. S. Eliot 1917
Fireflies Maya C. Popa 2026
A Dozen Cocktails Please Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 2026
Do Not Run Farnaz Fatemi 2024
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
The American Flag Nicolás Heredia y Mota 1892
Pebbles Frank Dempster Sherman 1892
The Wall Donald Justice 2004
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals Catherine Pierce 2020
For Mauna a Wākea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2022
Looking at the Moon After Rain Li Bai 1921
That is solemn we have ended,— (87) Emily Dickinson 2020

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