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Title Author Year
The Great Figure William Carlos Williams 1962
The Poem as Mask Muriel Rukeyser 2004
The Truth the Dead Know Anne Sexton 1981
There Lives a Young Girl Tove Ditlevsen 2025
What the Silence Said Marie Howe 2021
White Things Anne Spencer 1923
Francesca Ezra Pound 1909
The Language of the Birds Richard Siken 2011
After the Movie Marie Howe 2008
Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1826
Black Stone Lying On A White Stone César Vallejo 1971
Wellness Check Andrea Gibson 2021
Whoroscope Samuel Beckett 1930
Harvest Time Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Satan Jamil B. Holway 2000
The Veteran Dorothy Parker 1926
Owed to the Durag Joshua Bennett 2018
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus] William Shakespeare 2017
The Rookie January Gill O’Neil 2016
Utopian Alicia Ostriker 2016

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