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[’Twas the new moon!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Declaration Tracy K. Smith 2018
Love is too young to know what conscience is: (Sonnet 151) William Shakespeare 1904
The Last Thing Ada Limón 2018
Sitting at Night on the Front Porch Charles Wright 2017
Again Ross Gay 2016
For the City that Nearly Broke Me Reginald Dwayne Betts 2016
Long Night Full Moon D. A. Powell 2016
The Language of the Birds Richard Siken 2011
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890
Caesarion C. P. Cavafy 2008
The Great Figure William Carlos Williams 1962
Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All Judith Viorst 1981
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell 1976
Learning Judith Viorst 1981
Self and Life George Eliot 1884
Everybody’s Autobiography Tracy K. Smith 2024
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
Fireworks Edith Sitwell 1918
Tamales on Christmas Christian Robinson 2022

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