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Title Author Year
Old South Meeting House January Gill O’Neil 2016
14 haiku Sonia Sanchez 2016
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
The Hammock Li-Young Lee 2001
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006
cutting greens Lucille Clifton 1974
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Walt Whitman 1891
[It was summer when I found you] Sappho 1907
American Sonnet for the New Year Terrance Hayes 2022
Suicide’s Note Langston Hughes 1926
We Feel Now A Largeness Coming On Tracy K. Smith 2021
To Winter Claude McKay 1922
Youth and Age W. B. Yeats 1970
Blessings Jay Parini 2016
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014
The Sirens James Russell Lowell 1840
Man Carrying Thing Wallace Stevens 1980
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo 2023
Twerk Villanelle Porsha Olayiwola 2019

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