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Title Author Year
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt] Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
The Aeneid, Book I [Arms and the man I sing] Virgil 1907
Sharks in the Rivers Ada Limón 2010
The White Witch James Weldon Johnson 1922
The Kiss Stephen Dunn 2007
Two Butterflies went out at Noon— (533) Emily Dickinson 1890
On the Circuit W. H. Auden 1965
Apparition Stéphane Mallarmé 1920
Laughers Langston Hughes 1922
Shaking Hands Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Move Alicia Ostriker 2018
How to Dismantle a Heart Rodney Gomez 2018
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour” Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Seven Stones Marjorie Agosín 2016
After the Movie Marie Howe 2008
Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet Eavan Boland 2007
The Snowfall Is So Silent Miguel de Unamuno 1976
Wellness Check Andrea Gibson 2021
Night Anne Brontë 1915
Nimbawaadaan Akiing / I Dream a World Margaret Noodin 2021

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