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Title Author Year
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Man and Camel Mark Strand 2006
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
Dora Diller Jack Prelutsky 1984
Eighth Air Force Randall Jarrell 1969
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer Mark Strand 1979
Loading a Boar David Lee 2004
The One God Is Mysterious Frank X. Gaspar 2004
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
Canto I Ezra Pound 1956
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees Muriel Leung 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
Renee Nicole Good Is Murdered Cornelius Eady 2026
The Plot Against the Giant Wallace Stevens 1923
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Why paint night over nightless day? Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Slipshape Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 2024
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024

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