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Title Author Year
The Debt Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
History of Hurricanes Teresa Cader 2009
Just Before Jorie Graham 2008
Mother Herman de Coninck 2006
I Married You Linda Pastan 2006
Dora Diller Jack Prelutsky 1984
The White Room Charles Simic 1990
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Old Lizard Federico García Lorca 2005
Render, Render Thomas Lux 2004
Fletcher McGee Edgar Lee Masters 1921
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror Agha Shahid Ali 1991
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
Toy Peacock in Teak Birdcage Pimone Triplett 2026
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025
The Earth-Child in the Grass Katherine Mansfield 1923
Nostalgia Jessie Redmon Fauset 1927
The City William Rose Benét 1920
The Specious Present Catherine Barnett 2023
My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left Catherine Chen 2023

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