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Title Author Year
O, lest the world should task you to recite (Sonnet 72) William Shakespeare 1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19) William Shakespeare 1904
To Germany Charles Hamilton Sorley 1919
In the Gold Room Oscar Wilde 2018
Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber Michael Collier 2018
May-Day Ode William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Variations in Blue Lauren K. Alleyne 2018
Rituals, Yours—and Mine Kimberly Blaeser 2018
Naming the Heartbeats Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
How to Make a Crab Cake January Gill O’Neil 2009
Hive Kevin Young 2017
The Other Woman Twyla M. Hansen 2017
Mount Shasta John Rollin Ridge 2017
Golden Shovel: at the Lake’s Shore, I Sit with His Sister, Resting Sasha Pimentel 2017
A Simple Trajectory May Yang 2017
Deportation Letter Javier Zamora 2017
My Father’s Kites Allison Joseph 2017
The Symbolic Life Hayan Charara 2017
Burial Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs. Wallace Stevens 2017

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