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Title Author Year
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
Flying at Night Ted Kooser 1980
Ecce Puer James Joyce 1936
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) William Shakespeare 1609
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
Twerk Villanelle Porsha Olayiwola 2019
Spoils of the Dead Robert Frost 1915
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
Opal Amy Lowell 1919
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
When I Became La Promesa Peggy Robles-Alvarado 2020
Let It Be Forgotten Sara Teasdale 1920
Kid, this is October, Jeffrey Bean 2018
The Last Thing Ada Limón 2018
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Images Jaime Manrique 2016

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