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Title Author Year
Four-Leaf Clover Ella Higginson 2017
Recollections of My Christmas Tree Mary Ruefle 2016
Tender Buttons [A Long Dress] Gertrude Stein 1914
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady) Geoffrey Chaucer 1602
Life in a Love Robert Browning 1855
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
“There Is No Such Thing as the Past” [iii] Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Autumnal Rubén Darío 1916
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Why We Oppose Votes for Men Alice Duer Miller 1915
The Thrill of the Chase Forrest Fenn
After He’s Decided to Leave Elizabeth Acevedo 2019
The Ghost’s Petition Christina Rossetti 2018
Untitled Jesús Castillo 2018
The Christmas Holly Eliza Cook 2017

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