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Te Deum Charles Reznikoff 1976
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98) William Shakespeare 1609
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
Erasers Meghan O’Rourke 2026
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838
Nothing Promised Avia Tadmor 2025
Standup Sonnet Zeina Hashem Beck 2025
Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn 2017
Black Earth Marianne Moore 1921
Gitanjali 56 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Return Arna Bontemps 1927
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020
Lost Glimpses Luis G. Dato 1926
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom Dorothy Parker 1926
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022

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