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Title Author Year
Spellbound Emily Brontë 1837
The Cities Inside Us Alberto Ríos 1998
Résumé Dorothy Parker 1926
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
The Colonel Carolyn Forché 1981
Problems with Hurricanes Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
I saw a man pursuing the horizon Stephen Crane 2013
Stray Elizabeth Alexander 2018
We Who Are Your Closest Friends Phillip Lopate 2009
Dover Beach Matthew Arnold 1867
My Hole. My Whole. Sam Sax 2024
Mango Poem Regie Cabico 2014
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
Peaches Adrienne Su 2015
The Portrait Stanley Kunitz 1991
Fish Fucking Michael Blumenthal 1984
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
The Traveling Onion Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) Craig Santos Perez 2017

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