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Title Author Year
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna 1913
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
Winter Twilight Anne Porter 2006
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
If You Get There Before I Do Dick Allen 2003
Stealing The Scream Monica Youn 2003
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
American Sonnet for the New Year Terrance Hayes 2022
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54) William Shakespeare 1904
Rouge Bouquet Joyce Kilmer 2018
Abandoned Joseph Auslander 2016
Modern Love John Keats 2016
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
January William Carlos Williams 2016
The Woodlice Aracelis Girmay 2015

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