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Title Author Year
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1896
At Deep Midnight Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
The Subalterns Thomas Hardy 1902
Memento Mori Maya C. Popa 2026
“I came here to be a poet …” Michael Montlack 2026
bear moon fishes Ed Roberson 2026
II [Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.] W. H. Auden 1930
The Old Song of the Blood Humberto Ak’abal 2024
Ways to Measure Trees MaKshya Tolbert 2025
On the One Hand Megan Fernandes 2025
My Heart Has Known Its Winter Arna Bontemps 2025
Greenness Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora Terisa Siagatonu 2024
ghost canto Ariel Resnikoff 2023
Hard Times Claude McKay 1912
Anthropocenic Jake Skeets 2023
While I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who Love Me Charif Shanahan 2023
Four Walls Blanche Taylor Dickinson 1927
Golgotha Is a Mountain Arna Bontemps 1927
I’m Not Faking My Astonishment, Honest Paige Lewis 2023

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