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Title Author Year
Jet Tony Hoagland 1998
Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm Wo Chan 2026
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
Body Language Pramila Venkateswaran 2025
Lament Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
Naïve Tim Seibles 2024
Everybody’s Autobiography Tracy K. Smith 2024
Ghazal of Oranges Jan-Henry Gray 2022
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door Elisabet Velasquez 2021
American Sonnet (95) Wanda Coleman 2001
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Fruit of the Flower Countee Cullen 1925
The Flower at My Window Lucian B. Watkins 1903
My glass shall not persuade me I am old (Sonnet 22) William Shakespeare 1904
Self-Portrait with Eraser Andrea Cohen 2018
Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil] Sonia Sanchez 2018
Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth Tarfia Faizullah 2018
Overnight John Yau 2018
Morning on Shinnecock Olivia Ward Bush-Banks 1916
FaceTime Clint Smith 2017

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