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Title Author Year
Demeter to Persephone Alicia Ostriker 2009
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain James Wright 1992
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
Like Brooms of Steel (1252) Emily Dickinson 1890
Third Charm from Masque of Queens Ben Jonson 1609
Birds Again Jim Harrison 2006
The Blue Terrance Terrance Hayes 2006
The Legend Garrett Hongo 1988
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
Self-Portrait as Miranda Geri Doran 2005
They’ll spend the summer Joshua Beckman 2004
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
After the Grand Perhaps Lucie Brock-Broido 1988
Tract William Carlos Williams 1962
[I, whom Apollo sometime visited,] Robert Louis Stevenson 1918
blackgirl looking at blackbird Lucille Clifton 2026
the art of losing Rabha Ashry 2026
my dream about the second coming Lucille Clifton 1987

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