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Title Author Year
Wedding Cake Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
The Helmsman H.D. 1916
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
I like to see it lap the Miles (43) Emily Dickinson 1890
Assault Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Signs of the Times Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
The Metier of Blossoming Denise Levertov 1998
The Baite John Donne 1633
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
The Junior High School Band Concert David Wagoner 1999
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997
Deluxe Mourning Package Rachel McKibbens 2026
Night’s Edge / La orilla de la noche Octavio Quintanilla 2025
U-Pick Orchards Danusha Laméris 2025
Duplex for the Sick & Tired Kay Ulanday Barrett 2024
[O Málik! I pray thee go for the wine full early] Abu Nuwas 1922
You’re the Top Ellen Bass 2024
Displaced Mosab Abu Toha 2022
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022

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