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Title Author Year
Skin-Light Natalie Diaz 2018
A Valentine Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Speakin’ O’ Christmas Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
In Tongues Tonya M. Foster 2015
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
How to Love January Gill O’Neil 2014
To Thomas Moore Lord George Gordon Byron 1830
Days Ralph Waldo Emerson 1912
When I Heard at the Close of Day Walt Whitman 1891
way [excerpts] Leslie Scalapino 1988
Providence Natasha Trethewey 2006
Home After Three Months Away Robert Lowell 1976
Four Poems for Robin Gary Snyder 1968
Someone Dennis O’Driscoll 2005
Boaz Asleep Victor Hugo 2001
Erasers Meghan O’Rourke 2026
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
From “Vita Nuova” [To every captive soul and gentle heart] Dante Alighieri 2024
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024

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