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Title Author Year
Abandoned Joseph Auslander 2016
The Woodlice Aracelis Girmay 2015
Cotton Candy Edward Hirsch 2010
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna 1913
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
American Sonnet for the New Year Terrance Hayes 2022
Big Clock Li-Young Lee 2021
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
Autumn Siegfried Sassoon 2018
The Ghost’s Petition Christina Rossetti 2018
Given to Rust Vievee Francis 2017
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
Modern Love John Keats 2016
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
A Kite for Aibhin Seamus Heaney 2010
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
Winter Twilight Anne Porter 2006

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