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Title Author Year
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001
“There Is No Such Thing as the Past” [iii] Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
Gitanjali 13 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
From “The Trees Witness Everything” Victoria Chang 2021
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
Tasting the Earth James Oppenheim 1924
High Dangerous Catherine Pierce 2019
Autumn Siegfried Sassoon 2018
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Epistemology Catherine Barnett 2017
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016
Sunset E. E. Cummings 1913
The Wood-pile Robert Frost 2016
The Shark Lord Alfred Douglas 1897
Silence Thomas Hood 1827
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
At Pegasus Terrance Hayes 1999

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