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Title Author Year
Nearly a Valediction Marilyn Hacker 1994
Mr. Flood's Party Edwin Arlington Robinson 1921
The Violet Jane Taylor 1806
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Albany Ron Silliman 1983
Country Fair Charles Simic 1991
Portrait in Georgia Jean Toomer 1923
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Lawless Pantoum Denise Duhamel 2005
On the Mississippi Hamlin Garland 1893
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
Blue May Swenson 1994
La Figlia Che Piange T. S. Eliot 1917
About Face Alice Fulton 1995
The Great Migration Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Robert Lowell 1976
Photosynthesis Ashley M. Jones 2021
I Come from a Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen Kari Gunter-Seymour 2020
1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed LeAnne Howe 2020

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