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Title Author Year
Queer Frank Bidart 2012
Bed in Summer Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Ars Poetica Archibald MacLeish 1926
Praise Song for the Day Elizabeth Alexander 2009
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo 2016
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Nâzim Hikmet 1986
My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
To a Star Seen at Twilight John Rollin Ridge 2017
To Let this Woman Love Me E. Hughes 2026
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
Salvage Ada Limón 2022
The War Works Hard Dunya Mikhail 2005
Winter Colony Anne Sexton 1959
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
[You love yourself only when in pain] Dan Sociu 2026
From “Nox” [mutam] Anne Carson 2010
The Vampire Rudyard Kipling 1897
Dream Song 29 John Berryman 1959
Good-Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667

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