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Title Author Year
Dear Lonely Animal, Oni Buchanan 2008
Live Blindly and Upon the Hour Trumbull Stickney 1917
The Heron Linda Hogan 2008
Return John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 1714
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] Lord George Gordon Byron 1819
Landing Under Water, I See Roots Annie Finch 2003
The Buried Life Matthew Arnold 1852
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
The Dancing Gerald Stern 1982
Once in the 40’s William Stafford 1982
Shafro Terrance Hayes 1999
A Divine Image William Blake 1794
Daughters, 1900 Marilyn Nelson 1990
The Subalterns Thomas Hardy 1902
Older Elektra Jenny Tunedal 2026
blackgirl looking at blackbird Lucille Clifton 2026
Honeycrisp January Gill O’Neil 2026
Postures of Devotion Kimberly Blaeser 2025
The Sonnet in Drag Chris Watkins 2025
Vanishing Gbenga Adesina 2025

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