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Title Author Year
Languages Carl Sandburg 1916
Apples Grace Schulman 2007
Going There Jack Gilbert 2001
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
Patsy Sees a Ghost Lola Haskins 2004
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
Hymn to the Night Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Days of Me Stuart Dischell 2003
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
Old Story Catherine Barnett 2012
A Certain Point Edgar Kunz 2026
Citizen Gbenga Adesina 2025
U-Pick Orchards Danusha Laméris 2025
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
Everybody’s Autobiography Tracy K. Smith 2024
Drops Fell on the Roof Ana Castillo 2021
Dakota Homecoming Gwen Westerman 2018
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022

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