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America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4 William Blake 1793
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
Faults Sara Teasdale 1917
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
The Tinajera Notebook Forrest Gander 2011
Late Bird Angela Narciso Torres 2026
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
Morning After The Election Regie Cabico 2024
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
To a Snowflake Francis Thompson 1897
Go Youth James Tate 1994
The New Remorse Oscar Wilde 1887
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Mirage Luis G. Dato 1926
Abomunist Manifesto Bob Kaufman 2019
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
How Heid E. Erdrich 2018
Testimony: 1968 Rita Dove 2020

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