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Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002
Fletcher McGee Edgar Lee Masters 1921
Break of Day John Donne 1612
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Northern Pike James Wright 1992
Fireflies Maya C. Popa 2026
Future History of Earth’s Birds Amie Whittemore 2025
Self-Portrait 1 Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Just the other day, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Coming Out of the Shower Armen Davoudian 2024
Season of Grief Khadijah Queen 2023
Your Hands Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Theft Esther Popel 1925
Mirage Luis G. Dato 1926
Fracture Ellen Bass 2022
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel Catherine Pierce 2020
Not Once Sharon Olds 2022
Cassette County David Berman 2003
My Descendants W. B. Yeats 1970

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