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Evening H.D. 1916
For Trayvon Martin Reuben Jackson 2015
The Fire Katie Ford 2014
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
Waifs and Strays Arthur Rimbaud 1912
My life has been the poem I would have writ Henry David Thoreau 1849
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65) William Shakespeare 1609
The House Richard Wilbur 2010
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree D. A. Powell 2010
Motherhood, 1951 Ai 2010
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find] Petrarch 1374
Wilderness Carl Sandburg 1918
A Short Testament Anne Porter 2006
Black Petal Li-Young Lee 2001
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
Rock and Hawk Robinson Jeffers 1995
Beach Glass Amy Clampitt 1997
Render, Render Thomas Lux 2004
One Flower Jack Kerouac 2003

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