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Title Author Year
The Helmsman H.D. 1916
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur 2004
Old Photographs Gabeba Baderoon 2010
The Heart of the Woman W. B. Yeats 1899
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006
The Baite John Donne 1633
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997
Nothing Promised Avia Tadmor 2025
Fate Ralph Waldo Emerson 1900
To My Dead Child Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
Displaced Mosab Abu Toha 2022
Against Despair: The Kid Goat Nickole Brown 2018
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022

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