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Title Author Year
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) William Shakespeare 1609
Be Less Poetic Tariq Al-Arabi 2026
Oughta Be a Woman June Jordan 2017
Storm H.D. 2017
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
Zombie Blues Villanelle Tim Seibles 2016
Moonrise Gerard Manley Hopkins 2015
Wild Swans Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley Jupiter Hammon 1787
Dusting Marilyn Nelson 1994
Dear Spanish, Mateo Quispe 2024
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
Soulwork Tracy K. Smith 2021
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies] Aracelis Girmay 2020
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (Sonnet 62) William Shakespeare 1904
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror Mary Jo Bang 2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017

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