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Title Author Year
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
The Wishing Tree Kathleen Jamie 2007
Faults Sara Teasdale 1917
To My Brother Miguel in Memoriam César Vallejo 1993
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
Sandwich Kazim Ali 2026
Erasers Meghan O’Rourke 2026
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
Late Bird Angela Narciso Torres 2026
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Morning After The Election Regie Cabico 2024
To a Snowflake Francis Thompson 1897
All Souls’ Day in a German Town Margaret Fairless Barber 1903
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Drops Fell on the Roof Ana Castillo 2021
Mirage Luis G. Dato 1926
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
Abomunist Manifesto Bob Kaufman 2019

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