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Title Author Year
Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes 1994
The Oxen Thomas Hardy 1915
“There Is No Such Thing as the Past” [iii] Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Love’s Growth John Donne 1633
Puerto Rican Obituary Pedro Pietri 2015
The Grave of Keats Oscar Wilde 2018
The Candle Indoors Gerard Manley Hopkins 2016
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016
Untitled Rachel McKibbens 2014
Cotton Candy Edward Hirsch 2010
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
Dream-Land Edgar Allan Poe 1844
The Life of Trees Dorianne Laux 2009
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001
The Heart is the capital (138) Emily Dickinson 1929
Planet Dread Safiya Sinclair 2023
After the Reading Tiana Clark 2023
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922

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