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Title Author Year
Makebelieve Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Song of Myself, 17 Walt Whitman 1891
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep: (Sonnet 153) William Shakespeare 1904
That you were once unkind befriends me now (Sonnet 120) William Shakespeare 1904
Let me confess that we two must be twain. (Sonnet 36) William Shakespeare 1904
Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally Elizabeth Alexander 2018
Lullaby (with Exit Sign) Hadara Bar-Nadav 2018
Yellow Landscape Keith Ratzlaff 2018
Flowers and Bullets Martín Espada 2018
Fairy-Land Edgar Allan Poe 2018
White Boy Time Machine: Override Hieu Minh Nguyen 2018
In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads” Nicole Sealey 2017
The City is Peopled H.D. 2017
Nurse Dorianne Laux 2017
I Was Minor Olena Kalytiak Davis 2016
The Long Meadow Vijay Seshadri 2016
V-Neck T-Shirt Sonnet Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
Poem without Angel Food C. D. Wright 2016
The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Left-Handed Sugar Jane Hirshfield 2011

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