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Title Author Year
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
The Leopard Yusef Komunyakaa 2020
Ink-Light Natalie Diaz 2020
Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty Safiya Sinclair 2020
The Task of Naming Me Sharon Olds 2019
I used to be a roller coaster girl jessica Care moore 2019
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art (Sonnet 131) William Shakespeare 1904
But wherefore do not you a mightier way (Sonnet 16) William Shakespeare 1904
Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg 2018
La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente Oscar Wilde 2018
For Sister Gwen Brooks Sonia Sanchez 2018
Cumbia de Salvación Leticia Hernández-Linares 2018
I guess it was my destiny to live so long June Jordan 2017
The Bombing of Baghdad June Jordan 2017
A Dream of T’ien-mu Mountain Li Bai 1919
A water woman has no body Lisa Ciccarello 2017
Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love Katie Willingham 2017
Home-Coming Léonie Adams 2017
The Map Marie Howe 2016

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