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Title Author Year
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013
Hamatreya Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
The Tower W. B. Yeats 1928
Snow Song Frank Dempster Sherman 1897
The Bride of Corinth [From my grave to wander] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1853
The Shark Lord Alfred Douglas 1897
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well Mahmoud Darwish 2007
The Niagara River Kay Ryan 2005
A Hand Jane Hirshfield 2001
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023
Summer Night Langston Hughes 1926
On the Religion of Nature Philip Freneau 1815
High Dangerous Catherine Pierce 2019
On Anger Rage Hezekiah 2019

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