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Title Author Year
There Lives a Young Girl Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Autumn Leaves Margaret Daramola 2021
One Girl Sappho 1870
What It Must Have Felt Like Ada Limón 2020
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
The Red Sweater Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt] Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
Man Carrying Thing Wallace Stevens 1980
Some Days Billy Collins 1998
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Wallace Stevens 1954
For every bird a nest (79) Emily Dickinson 1929
Verse for a Certain Dog Dorothy Parker 1926
The Dramatists Dorothy Parker 1926
Island Langston Hughes 1995
When I Became La Promesa Peggy Robles-Alvarado 2020
Ode on Melancholy John Keats 1820
Citizenship Javier Zamora 2018
14 haiku Sonia Sanchez 2016
Wonder and Joy Robinson Jeffers 1916

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