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Title Author Year
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94) William Shakespeare 1609
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
Late Bird Angela Narciso Torres 2026
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
Returning to Fields and Gardens (I) Tao Yuanming 2024
Peter Quince at the Clavier Wallace Stevens 1923
Ode to Goby Juliana Spahr 2023
Go Youth James Tate 1994
Season of Grief Khadijah Queen 2023
From “This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay” Cody-Rose Clevidence 2023
Gitanjali 10 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 4 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Wetland francine j. harris 2023
Men Say They Know Many Things Henry David Thoreau 1943
Enslaved Claude McKay 1922
Skin Tight Ishmael Reed 2021
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein Philip Freneau 1809
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
The Sound of Their Names Ellen Bass 2020

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