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Title Author Year
Grasshopper Ron Padgett 2011
The Apparition John Donne 1633
Grace for a Child Robert Herrick 1648
The Voice Thomas Hardy 1915
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
Elastic Love Contrapuntal Sarah Cooper 2023
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
A Litany Of Atlanta W. E. B. Du Bois 1922
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
The 19th Amendment & My Mama Mahogany L. Browne 2020
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
How to Dismantle a Heart Rodney Gomez 2018
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Phenomenal Woman (audio only) Maya Angelou 1978
Call of the Night Djuna Barnes 2016
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
A Man’s A Man For A’ That Robert Burns 1795

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