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Title Author Year
What I Did Wrong Marie Howe 2017
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles Sally Wen Mao 2015
The Apparition John Donne 1633
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966
Curriculum Vitae Lisel Mueller 1996
Fire Strike Margaret Noodin 2026
Folk Song Diane Seuss 2023
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
Twerk Villanelle Porsha Olayiwola 2019
Now What Solmaz Sharif 2019
Dandelions Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
The Hour and the Ghost Christina Rossetti 2018
When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
Images Jaime Manrique 2016
The Mind in State Fady Joudah 2016
The Oven-Bird Robert Frost 1916
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All Judith Viorst 1981

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