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Title Author Year
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
Grace Joy Harjo 1990
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
Some Melodious Plot Anthony Borruso 2025
There Lives a Young Girl Tove Ditlevsen 2025
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
The Day Lady Died Frank O’Hara 1964
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry Howard Nemerov 1980
It’s easy to invent a life (41) Emily Dickinson 1929
[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Prayer Langston Hughes 1927
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene I [Wherefore rejoice?] William Shakespeare 2016
I Sit and Sew Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1927
Meeting at Night Robert Browning 1845
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
To a Dark Girl Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
On Religion Kahlil Gibran 1923
Infant Joy William Blake 1789
The Stalin Epigram Osip Mandelstam 1989

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