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Title Author Year
I know crips live here Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Friendship Maxwell Bodenheim
A Dream of T’ien-mu Mountain Li Bai 1919
The Everlasting Voices W. B. Yeats 2017
Galway Races W. B. Yeats 2016
Emily Dickinson Felipe Benitez Reyes 2016
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012
A Yellow Leaf Ariana Reines 2015
Time Passes Joy Ladin 2015
My/My/My Charles Bernstein 1975
Essay on Man, Epistle I [excerpt] Alexander Pope 1734
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas Prageeta Sharma 2010
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—ay, love John Keats 1819
Xicano J. Michael Martinez 2010
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Milton [Excerpt] William Blake 1811
Letter from a Haunted Room Lisa Sewell 2006
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm Carl Phillips 2004
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990

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