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Title Author Year
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel Catherine Pierce 2020
Thou Dusky Spirit Of The Wood Henry David Thoreau 1943
Lion Tina Chang 2022
Patients Aurora Levins Morales 2013
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
What Comes Carolyn Forché 2020
Winter Moon Langston Hughes 1923
That is solemn we have ended,— (87) Emily Dickinson 2020
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1903
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128) William Shakespeare 1904
Against my love shall be, as I am now (Sonnet 63) William Shakespeare 1904
The Unconquered Dead John McCrae 2018
My Father as Cartographer Natasha Trethewey 2018
Becoming Ghost Cathy Linh Che 2018
For Sister Gwen Brooks Sonia Sanchez 2018
King Canute William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
TO F—— Edgar Allan Poe 2018
A Pain That Is Not Private Lara Mimosa Montes 2018
From “Surge” Etel Adnan 2017

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