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Title Author Year
Cold War Randall Mann 2023
Season of Grief Khadijah Queen 2023
The Mask Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
The Wall Donald Justice 2004
Of a Certain Friendship Elsa Gidlow 1923
I Have Folded My Sorrows Bob Kaufman 1965
Mistletoe Walter de la Mare 1922
Everything Needs Fixing Karla Cordero 2021
Ways to Disappear Camille Rankine 2021
Like a Strong Tree Claude McKay 1925
When Love Alicia Ostriker 2021
The Winter Bird Jones Very 1883
Everything is Different Paul Celan 2020
Flower Song / Flor y Canto / In Xochitl In Cuicatl Francisco X. Alarcón 1992
The Leopard Yusef Komunyakaa 2020
Wild Horses Paisley Rekdal 2020
When Bad Things Happen to Good People Lynn Melnick 2019
Song of Myself, 9 Walt Whitman 1891
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are (Sonnet 13) William Shakespeare 1904
Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg 2018

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