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Title Author Year
Audenesque Seamus Heaney 2016
Attention Deficit Katy Lederer 2014
My Proteins Jane Hirshfield 2015
Action Poem Helen Hoyt 1915
Jenny Kiss'd Me Leigh Hunt 1838
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea Cecilia Woloch 2010
Little Ending Charles Wright 2009
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
Let Us Live and Love (5) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1601
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
Sojourns in the Parallel World Denise Levertov 1996
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
O Little Root of a Dream Paul Celan 2000
Haiku Ambulance Richard Brautigan 1989
Lament Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
The Cloisters Jorge Luis Borges 1999
no one wants to be rough anymore Xan Forest Phillips 2024
crown Danez Smith 2017
Why I Needed To Richard Blanco 2023
Ghazal of Oranges Jan-Henry Gray 2022

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