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Title Author Year
The White Fires of Venus Denis Johnson 1994
Why Regret? Galway Kinnell 2006
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm Carl Phillips 2004
The Junior High School Band Concert David Wagoner 1999
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
When that I was and a little tiny boy William Shakespeare 1602
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
“[Lady of all powers]” Enheduana 1994
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Truth Victor Hugo 2025
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
Fog Emma Lazarus 1889
job prescription Evie Shockley 2024
[O But My Delicate Lover] Sappho 1907
Coming Out of the Shower Armen Davoudian 2024
Mother Dear Claude McKay 1912

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