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Title Author Year
The Gray Heron Galway Kinnell 2018
Barberism Terrance Hayes 2017
A Prophecy: To George Keats in America John Keats 2017
Childhood in the Latin Caribbean Victor Hernández Cruz 2017
Summer Silence E. E. Cummings 1913
Untitled Paul Carroll 2016
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016
On the Death of Anne Brontë Charlotte Brontë 2016
Summer Triptych Linda Pastan 2015
Time Passes Joy Ladin 2015
From “Fairies” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2013
The Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 1922
Metamorphosis James Richardson 2013
Love Katy Lederer 2011
I like to see it lap the Miles (43) Emily Dickinson 1890
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
Gertrude Stein Mina Loy 1924
Nothing Promised Avia Tadmor 2025
Not Dead, but Sleeping Clara Ann Thompson 1908

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