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All but Death can be (89) Emily Dickinson 1929
Darkness Lord George Gordon Byron 1816
Surviving California Emily J. Clarke 2026
The Merry-Go-Round Aldous Huxley 1918
For Annie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!] William Shakespeare 1608
The Conundrum of the Workshops Rudyard Kipling 1890
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
I Hear an Army James Joyce 1914
Glow Brian Komei Dempster 2026
From “Grandmother’s Garden” Meena Alexander 2020
Dreamers Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Foul Ball David Bottoms 2018
I Sit and Sew Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1927
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith 1972
Moonlight on Manila Bay Fernando M. Maramág 1912
Her Voice Oscar Wilde 2018
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This Hanif Abdurraqib 2018
Song for the Turtles in the Gulf Linda Hogan 2016

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