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Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
Confession Countee Cullen 1927
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz Matthew Olzmann 2016
Sonnets-Realities (I) E. E. Cummings 1923
This Sunday in Ordinary Time Peter Twal 2018
Someday, Again Jason Bayani 2023
America, I Am James Cagney 2022
When The Patient Asked For A White Doctor Seema Yasmin
Iva's Pantoum Marilyn Hacker 1969
God Letter CM Burroughs 2018
Malice S. Brook Corfman 2023
At the New York City AIDS Memorial Stefania Gomez 2022
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016
The Hook of History Hadara Bar-Nadav 2024
Margo Fanny Howe 2021
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
In Tongues Tonya M. Foster 2015
Ghazal !يا لطيف (Ya Lateef!) Marilyn Hacker 2020
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence Matthew Shenoda 2026

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