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Title Author Year
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies] Aracelis Girmay 2020
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020
Invocation Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 1860
Corpse Flower Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2018
My 24 Hour Version Lois Red Elk 2017
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
Gay Marriage Poem Jenny Johnson 2017
Kudzu Saeed Jones 2015
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
Picture-books in Winter Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Personal Poem Frank O’Hara 1964
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky Joy Priest 2023
An Ante-Bellum Sermon Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me Jane Hirshfield 2021
Tasting the Earth James Oppenheim 1924
Ode to My Hair Aria Aber 2019
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
The Women’s Litany Margaret Widdemer 2018

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