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At Night Stanley Plumly 2019
Song of Myself, 8 Walt Whitman 1891
Rally Elizabeth Alexander 2018
A Valentine Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
A Pain That Is Not Private Lara Mimosa Montes 2018
Speakin’ O’ Christmas Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Even the Gods Nicole Sealey 2017
Global Warming Jane Hirshfield 2006
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends W. B. Yeats 1899
Human Habitat Alison Hawthorne Deming 2015
Unpacking a Globe Arthur Sze 2015
When There Were Ghosts Alberto Ríos 2014
Before the Birth of One of Her Children Anne Bradstreet 2013
The Tinajera Notebook Forrest Gander 2011
When I Heard at the Close of Day Walt Whitman 1891
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
Faults Sara Teasdale 1917
The Sorrow of Love W. B. Yeats 1893
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972

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