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Title Author Year
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Images Jaime Manrique 2016
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
Espergesia César Vallejo 1918
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Phenomenal Woman (audio only) Maya Angelou 1978
The Mind in State Fady Joudah 2016
All the Thoughts at a Football Game Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Left-Handed Sugar Jane Hirshfield 2011
The Long Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2013
Be Near Me Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025

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