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Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget Anis Mojgani 2019
Kid, these are train tracks, Jeffrey Bean 2018
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90) William Shakespeare 1904
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (Sonnet 62) William Shakespeare 1904
Deleting Names (A Decaying Sestina) Lawrence Schimel 2018
Black Swan Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2018
Firing Squad Ilya Kaminsky 2018
Christmas in the Heart Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
The School of Night & Hyphens Chen Chen 2017
A Woman Sleeps on an Island Marjorie Agosín 2016
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
To George Sand: A Desire Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
Idyll Siegfried Sassoon 1920
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
Toward the Winter Solstice Timothy Steele 2006
Shirt Robert Pinsky 1990
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998

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