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Title Author Year
All the Whiskey in Heaven Charles Bernstein 2010
way [excerpts] Leslie Scalapino 1988
Moonrise H.D. 1917
The Sharks Denise Levertov 1957
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
Playgrounds Laurence Alma-Tadema 1903
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
The Alien Greg Delanty 2007
In Praise of Shame Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
Catch a Little Rhyme Eve Merriam 1966
Learning Judith Viorst 1981
Mastectomy Wanda Coleman 1993
The Junior High School Band Concert David Wagoner 1999
The Taxi Amy Lowell 1914
Twilight: After Haying Jane Kenyon 1996
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Cynthia Wanders My Neighborhood Thomas Centolella 2026
Post Partum Nikita Deshpande 2026
Proof Cornelius Eady 2026

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