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Title Author Year
On Virtue Phillis Wheatley 1773
The Flight Sara Teasdale 1915
The Tinajera Notebook Forrest Gander 2011
Testy Pony Zachary Schomburg 2010
The Heart of the Woman W. B. Yeats 1899
On Shakespeare John Milton 1630
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder A. E. Housman 1939
Pillow Li-Young Lee 2001
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
The Shadows of Words Edgar Silex 2004
The White Horse D. H. Lawrence 1964
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
Gertrude Stein Mina Loy 1924
Touching and Being Touched Jenny George 2026
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Kaōnōn Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 2024
I ask about what falls away Jason Magabo Perez 2023

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