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Title Author Year
A Chant of Mystics Ameen Rihani 1921
The Fearfulness of Hands that Have Learned Killing (audio only) Wendell Berry 2022
The Moonlight Yvor Winters 1924
True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity Henry David Thoreau 1943
Conscience and Remorse Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Shadow Bruce Nugent 1925
Running Water Alfonsina Storni 1925
Song for a Banjo Dance Langston Hughes 1926
Villanelle Otto Leland Bohanan 1915
Like, Comma, Like Kay Gabriel 2020
She Told Me the Earth Loves Us Anne Haven McDonnell 2020
breathe we Juan Felipe Herrera 2020
When I Am Asked Lisel Mueller 1996
December Morning in the Desert Alberto Ríos 2019
The Haunted Oak Paul Laurence Dunbar
Prayer to Be Still and Know Nickole Brown 2019
Basketball feat. Galileo & EPMD Adrian Matejka 2019
Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Billy in the Darbies Herman Melville 1924
O’ Noblesse O’ Nikky Finney 2019

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