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Title Author Year
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
Lament Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
Interim Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
The Harp of Broken Strings John Rollin Ridge 1850
Whitman Ana Castillo 2021
Mirage Luis G. Dato 1926
This Is Not Love Elsa Gidlow 1923
Maine Yet Miami Richard Blanco 2020
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Walt Whitman 1867
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Amores (VII) E. E. Cummings 1923
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904
An Old Story Tracy K. Smith 2018
Evening Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
Speakin’ O’ Christmas Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
One Day Marie Howe 2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
Daedalus, After Icarus Saeed Jones 2017
Central America in My Heart Oscar Gonzales 2016
The Wood-pile Robert Frost 2016

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