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The Colonel Carolyn Forché 1981
the earth is a living thing Lucille Clifton 1991
Dusk After Your Passing Ada Limón 2026
At the Touch of You Witter Bynner 2014
The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951
To the Film Industry in Crisis Frank O’Hara 1957
Problems with Hurricanes Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) Craig Santos Perez 2017
The Traveling Onion Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Prayer Nancy Cunard 2026
Stray Elizabeth Alexander 2018
Eating Poetry Mark Strand 1980
My Hole. My Whole. Sam Sax 2024
The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert W. Service 1907
Lot’s Wife Anna Akhmatova 1973
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
My Skeleton Jane Hirshfield 2013
Eating Together Li-Young Lee 1986
My Butterfly Robert Frost 2017
Mango Poem Regie Cabico 2014

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