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Title Author Year
Let Us Live and Love (5) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1601
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
Sonnet 2 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006
Domestic Mysticism Lucie Brock-Broido 1988
Persuasion William Wordsworth 1822
To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train Bao Phi 2024
Latinx Is Emanuel Xavier 2023
The Sluggard Isaac Watts 1715
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Now Close the Windows Robert Frost 1915
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
The Tree Sparrows Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
Little Father Li-Young Lee 2001
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
Left Nikky Finney 2011

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