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The Graduate Leaving College George Moses Horton 1845
Thursday Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
The Moment Marie Howe 2011
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find] Petrarch 1374
The Hug Thom Gunn 2009
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer Mark Strand 1979
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] Walt Whitman 1891
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees Muriel Leung 2026
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026
A Certain Point Edgar Kunz 2026
From “The Lady of the Lake” (Canto I) Sir Walter Scott 1810
Future History of Earth’s Birds Amie Whittemore 2025
La Guerre (II) E. E. Cummings 2025
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
DEAR GABRIELLE, Andrea Abi-Karam 2025
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
[O But My Delicate Lover] Sappho 1907
Dream On James Tate 1997
Description of Symptoms Allison Benis White 2023

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