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Title Author Year
Let It Be Forgotten Sara Teasdale 1920
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
All the Thoughts at a Football Game Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Rooms Remembered Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2015
Wonder and Joy Robinson Jeffers 1916
Left-Handed Sugar Jane Hirshfield 2011
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] Eliza Lee Follen 1832
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Be Near Me Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
The Christmas Holly Eliza Cook 2017
Phenomenal Woman (audio only) Maya Angelou 1978
Recollections of My Christmas Tree Mary Ruefle 2016

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