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Title Author Year
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
Trees in the Garden D. H. Lawrence 1964
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson 1910
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
i take my glasses off Lucille Clifton 2026
[Each morning before dawn,] Gary Young 2026
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
Christmas on the Border, 1929 Alberto Ríos 2024
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
Little Things Marion Strobel 1921
Love By The Sea #1 Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
The Feet of Judas George Marion McClellan 1922
Much Later Gertrude Stein 1926
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
All the Time Blues Villanelle Tim Seibles 2022
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur Ellen Bass 2020
River to River Hai-Dang Phan 2019

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