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[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer Angel Nafis 2026
for goldfish that remember seaworld D’mani Thomas 2026
Unforgotten William Rose Benét 2025
Citizen Gbenga Adesina 2025
I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married Aaron Smith 2025
Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn 2017
Interview Jordan Kapono Nakamura 2024
The Ice Cream Man James Tate 2008
My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left Catherine Chen 2023
[It was deep April, and the morn] Michael Field 1893
Lines Written During My Second Pandemic Eduardo C. Corral 2022
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020
The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy 1917
Answer July Emily Dickinson 1862
A Death Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
The Sufi Ameen Rihani 1921
True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity Henry David Thoreau 1943
Voices of the Air Katherine Mansfield 1923
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes 1926

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