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Title Author Year
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas Prageeta Sharma 2010
Before the Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2010
Portrait of a Lady T. S. Eliot 1915
Signs of the Times Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
A Table in the Wilderness Li-Young Lee 2001
The White Fires of Venus Denis Johnson 1994
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] Charles Wright 2007
Wedding Dress Michael Waters 2006
Blue Plate Jesse Lee Kercheval 2004
Prayer Jorie Graham 2002
Chansons Innocentes: I E. E. Cummings 1976
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Poppy Field Victoria Chang 2026
Future History of Earth’s Birds Amie Whittemore 2025
job prescription Evie Shockley 2024
Faceless Tongo Eisen-Martin 2017
Gitanjali 82 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
My Home Luis G. Dato 1926
Long Gone Sterling A. Brown 1922
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926

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