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Title Author Year
For my Brother(s) Lauren K. Alleyne 2020
To a No. 2 Yellow Pencil on May 1, 2020 Kimiko Hahn 2020
When I Am Asked Lisel Mueller 1996
The Rainbow Effie Waller Smith 1909
Sybil Julia Ward Howe 1854
Poverty Henry David Thoreau 1895
Third Rock from the Sun Dorianne Laux 2019
brief lesson on marriage G. C. Waldrep 2019
The Sicilian’s Tale; The Bell of Atri Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered] Diane Seuss 2019
To Zeke Ellen Bass 2019
Publicity Ada Limón 2018
Still Life with Ladder Susan Rich 2018
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5) William Shakespeare 1904
The Spires of Oxford Winifred M. Letts 2018
Value Kendel Hippolyte 2018
Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain Michael Collier 2018
In Brazil Tracy K. Smith 2018
Becoming Ghost Cathy Linh Che 2018
Flowers and Bullets Martín Espada 2018

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