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Morning on Shinnecock Olivia Ward Bush-Banks 1916
Vivien’s Song Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
Audenesque Seamus Heaney 2016
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë Charlotte Brontë 2016
Chess Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2015
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2015
This Much and More Djuna Barnes 2019
The Thinker William Carlos Williams 2015
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890
American Liberty Philip Freneau 1775
Dirge Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1851
Sojourns in the Parallel World Denise Levertov 1996
Someone Dennis O’Driscoll 2005
The Feast of Lights Emma Lazarus 1882
Rumi Joseph Fasano
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem Rachel Dillon 2025
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Winter Anne Bradstreet 1650

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