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Title Author Year
Xicano J. Michael Martinez 2010
Dear Lonely Animal, Oni Buchanan 2008
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) William Shakespeare 1609
Epithalamion Edmund Spenser 1595
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
Faults Sara Teasdale 1917
You Tell Us What to Do Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1991
Sex Michael Ryan 2004
History Robert Lowell 1976
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Porch Swing in September Ted Kooser 2005
Honey Arielle Greenberg 2005
Blue Plate Jesse Lee Kercheval 2004
To the Oracle at Delphi Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2001
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
[I never knew what to name from my life and what to hide] Gabriel Antonio Reed 2026
The Creek in Shirley Canyon Robert Hass 2025
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024
Birthing Woman as Viscera-Sucker Aimee Suzara 2024

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