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Title Author Year
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
The Sluggard Isaac Watts 1715
Gitanjali 103 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies] Aracelis Girmay 2020
High Dangerous Catherine Pierce 2019
Or I shall live your epitaph to make (Sonnet 81) William Shakespeare 1904
Autumn Siegfried Sassoon 2018
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Tending Elizabeth Alexander 2017
The Weight of Sweetness Li-Young Lee 2017
Epistemology Catherine Barnett 2017
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror Mary Jo Bang 2017
Ditty Kevin Young 2016
The Wood-pile Robert Frost 2016
Only as the Day Is Long Dorianne Laux 2015
Tender Buttons [A Long Dress] Gertrude Stein 1914
As a Portent David Baker 2014
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
Wild Swans Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921

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