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Title Author Year
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
The Morning After Ellen Bass 2014
Kinky Denise Duhamel 1997
Exclusively on Venus Trace Peterson 2016
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017
Blues Haiku [let me be yo wil] Sonia Sanchez 2018
To George Sand: A Recognition Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
Love in Outer Space Alison C. Rollins 2021
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur Ellen Bass 2020
How To Forgive Susan Nguyen 2022
Ophelia to the Court Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Pier 52 Omotara James 2021
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
Mystery D. H. Lawrence 2017
The Ecstasy Phillip Lopate 2009
When Bad Things Happen to Good People Lynn Melnick 2019

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