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Title Author Year
Grandfather A. Van Jordan 2022
Comment Dorothy Parker 1926
Ballad Diane Seuss 2021
If You Should Go Countee Cullen 1922
Family Reunion Rita Dove 2007
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century Herman Melville 2019
I Wouldn’t Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance Kaveh Akbar 2018
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
The Fool’s Song William Carlos Williams 2017
Leave No Trace Maggie Dietz 2016
Medusa Louise Bogan 1921
Of the Surface of Things Wallace Stevens 1919
To Fanny John Keats 1848
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980
The Aeneid, Book IV [So, you traitor] Virgil 2006
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
In Jerusalem Mahmoud Darwish 2005
Star Quilt Roberta Hill Whiteman 1984
All She Wrote Harryette Mullen 1997
Stoicism for Beginners Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026

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