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Title Author Year
Abstraction Anne Marie Rooney 2025
My Dead Friends Marie Howe 2022
America Claude McKay 1922
“You and I Are Disappearing” Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
The Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 1986
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney 2006
Lyrics: II (17) José Garcia Villa 2019
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
The Wind and the Moon George Macdonald 1904
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
From “Will There Be Singing” Juliana Spahr 2020
Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home) Patrick Rosal 2024
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 2009
Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
Tear It Down Jack Gilbert 2001
Spring Night Sara Teasdale 1915
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980
Woodchucks Maxine Kumin 1972
Open Market on Sài Sơn Mountain Hồ Xuân Hương 2026

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