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Coffee Matthew Dickman 2017
The Aeneid, Book I [Arms and the man I sing] Virgil 1907
Man Carrying Thing Wallace Stevens 1980
Lucky Tony Hoagland 1998
Question May Swenson 1978
[The dream seems universal, I’ve heard it] Dan Sociu 2026
There Lives a Young Girl Tove Ditlevsen 2025
A World Made By Atoms Margaret Cavendish 1653
Sport Langston Hughes 1927
Verse for a Certain Dog Dorothy Parker 1926
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour” Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Applesauce Ted Kooser 2017
Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done Victoria Chang 2017
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
Autumn Richard Garcia 2006
Niagara José María Heredia 1827
The Choice Dorothy Parker 1926
My Mountains Gabriela Mistral 2003
When I Became La Promesa Peggy Robles-Alvarado 2020
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017

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