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Title Author Year
The Black Unicorn (audio only) Audre Lorde 1977
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
The Wild Iris (audio only) Louise Glück 1992
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
The Young Man’s Song W. B. Yeats 1916
Sex with a Famous Poet Denise Duhamel 1999
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Canto I Ezra Pound 1956
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
Song at Capri Sara Teasdale 1925
i take my glasses off Lucille Clifton 2026
And the Place Was Water Nicholas Gulig 2024
Daughter Danusha Laméris 2024
I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married Aaron Smith 2025
How To Orchestrate A Genocide Raffi Joe Wartanian 2025
Anthem for America Varsha Saraiya-Shah 2025
Self-Portrait 1 Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025

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