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Title Author Year
On My First Son Ben Jonson 1603
Fireworks Edith Sitwell 1918
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
Dandelions Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Whispers of Immortality T. S. Eliot 1920
The House on the Hill Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897
The Art of Shooting in the Dark Denice Frohman 2022
2020 Catherine Barnett 2022
The Fruits of Death Ameen Rihani 1905
In the Beginning Donika Kelly 2021
Dysphoria Oliver Baez Bendorf 2020
Paper Cuts Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 8 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
The Past Louise Glück 2014
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch] Claudia Rankine 2014
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991
The Fist Derek Walcott 1986

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