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Title Author Year
When the Orders Came Fatimah Asghar 2018
Octopus Empire Marilyn Nelson 2019
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144) William Shakespeare 1904
The Willow-Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Fatigue Amy Lowell 2018
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
Irony Layli Long Soldier 2016
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
Blue Vase Cynthia Zarin 2016
Imagery Archibald MacLeish 2015
The Fire Katie Ford 2014
Parties: A Hymn of Hate Dorothy Parker 1916
In Betweenness Pierre Joris 2014
Thoughts Walt Whitman 1867
Ghazal: In Silence Mimi Khalvati 2013
Ashes of Life Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
To Thomas Moore George Gordon Byron 1830
‘The child is father to the man.’ Gerard Manley Hopkins 2011
Daily Life Susan Wood 2011
South Jack Gilbert 2010

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