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From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
job prescription Evie Shockley 2024
The Night Before I Leave Home Elisa Gonzalez 2023
Season of Grief Khadijah Queen 2023
All Souls’ Day in a German Town Margaret Fairless Barber 1903
The New Remorse Oscar Wilde 1887
From “This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay” Cody-Rose Clevidence 2023
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before Ina Cariño 2023
To a Wreath of Snow Emily Brontë 1908
Canada Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
Insomniami Ariel Francisco 2021
Essay on Thunder Sumita Chakraborty 2020
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein Philip Freneau 1809
Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty Safiya Sinclair 2020

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