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Title Author Year
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
Hermes of the Ways H.D. 2016
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America Ada Limón 2012
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
Silence Thomas Hood 1827
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] Christopher Smart 1939
Boys Will Be Boys Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
The House of Ghosts Margaret Widdemer 2018
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
Of Many Worlds in this World Margaret Cavendish 1653
Starfish Eleanor Lerman 2005
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
Joy Langston Hughes 1926

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