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Title Author Year
Testy Pony Zachary Schomburg 2010
Pillow Li-Young Lee 2001
Letters from a Father Mona Van Duyn 1982
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
Body Language Pramila Venkateswaran 2025
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Kaōnōn Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 2024
Hope Clara Ann Thompson 1908
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Canada Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
This Is Not Love Elsa Gidlow 1923
The New Day Fenton Johnson 1922
Sick4Sick torrin a. greathouse 2022
This Island on Which I Love You Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
More Than Something Else Rainy Dawn Ortiz 2020
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018

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