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Title Author Year
Purgatorio, Canto X Dante Alighieri 1867
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Bucolics [LIX] Maurice Manning 2007
The Legend Garrett Hongo 1988
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews Amy Clampitt 1997
San Sepolcro Jorie Graham 1995
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
Of Memory and Distance Russell Edson 2005
homage to my hips (audio only) Lucille Clifton 1983
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
Go Greyhound Bob Hicok 2004
I Come from a Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen Kari Gunter-Seymour 2020
1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed LeAnne Howe 2020
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58) William Shakespeare 1904
Sculpture with Fragments of Stuart Hall Christian Campbell 2018
The Broken Man’s Permission Aaron Coleman 2018
Position Paper #53: National Archivist Andrea Lawlor 2026
The Iliad, Book XX [The Warrior’s Return] Homer 2023
Richard’s Not Such a Die-Hard Christian After All Michelle Bitting 2026
“Artificial neurons can be trained to kill humans without humans overseeing” K. A. Hays 2026

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