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Gitanjali 6 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
My Little Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
8. bell hooks 2012
What Comes Carolyn Forché 2020
Not Once Sharon Olds 2022
For a Lady I Know Countee Cullen 1925
Breathe. As in. (shadow) Rosamond S. King 2019
Housesitting William Brewer 2019
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are (Sonnet 13) William Shakespeare 1904
Spring in War-Time Sara Teasdale 2018
Sun Hadara Bar-Nadav 2018
In Equal Sacrifice Robert Frost 1915
Deleting Names (A Decaying Sestina) Lawrence Schimel 2018
Perennials Maggie Smith 2018
The Lamp of Life Amy Lowell 2018
Petals Amy Lowell 2018
Two Set Out on Their Journey Galway Kinnell 2018
Poem of Regret for an Old Friend Meghan O’Rourke 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Any day now you will have the ability to feed the name] Terrance Hayes 2017

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