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Title Author Year
Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait Mary Hickman 2016
Sea Lily H.D. 2016
The August Preoccupations Catherine Barnett 2016
Dressing Down Kamilah Aisha Moon 2016
Compass Joan Naviyuk Kane 2015
Swallows Leonora Speyer 1921
Meaning Carl Dennis 2013
For Crying Out Loud Terrance Hayes 2013
Renouncement Alice Meynell 1895
Ebb Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
After dark vapors have oppress’d our plains John Keats 1899
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
Joy in the Woods Claude McKay 1920
A Wedding Toast (audio only) Richard Wilbur 2003
Color - Caste - Denomination - (970) Emily Dickinson 1890
Homosexuality Henri Cole 2007
Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?] Petrarch 1375
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind] William Wordsworth 1815
Just Before Jorie Graham 2008
Nights Harvey Shapiro 2006

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