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Title Author Year
Oriflamme Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920
Immigrant Can’t Write Poetry Wang Ping 2018
A Prophecy: To George Keats in America John Keats 2017
Poem of Regret for an Old Friend Meghan O’Rourke 2017
Dear Mama (4) Wanda Coleman 2017
Ode to an Encyclopedia James Arthur 2015
Token Loss Kay Ryan 2014
From “Fairies” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2013
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Ode to My Hands Tim Seibles 2010
Dear Tiara Sean Thomas Dougherty 2011
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur 2004
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson 1910
Northern Pike James Wright 1992
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997

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