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Truth Victor Hugo 2025
Loom Lee Trumpfheller 2024
When It Comes Down To It Ada Limón 2022
Big Clock Li-Young Lee 2021
Nothing Wants to Suffer Danusha Laméris 2021
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters Oscar Wilde 1886
Of the Threads that Connect the Stars Martín Espada 2018
Dear Mama (4) Wanda Coleman 2017
Exclusively on Venus Trace Peterson 2016
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Suddenly Sharon Olds 2013
Song of the Trees Mary Colborne-Veel 1918
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
The Great Figure William Carlos Williams 1962
My Wife Robert Louis Stevenson 1896
The Old Lizard Federico García Lorca 2005
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Mom Refaat Alareer 2024
Untitled Nasser Rabah 2025
Gitanjali 34 Rabindranath Tagore 1916

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