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Title Author Year
Lightning Bug Colin Pope 2024
44 Questions to Ask While Bingeing Kemi Alabi 2021
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
Once Paisley Rekdal 2019
The Kindness Jan Beatty 2015
27,000 Miles Albert Goldbarth 2007
Somber Bull Andrea Cote 2025
Why Say That Fiona Templeton 2025
Lobster Anthony Walton 2003
Owl Anne Haven McDonnell 2022
Rainy Day Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988
Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese Benjamin Garcia 2020
Space Station Tom Sleigh 2007
To Zeke Ellen Bass 2019
Vessels Paisley Rekdal 2016
Bleecker Street Jayne Cortez 2025
I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them. Kimberly Blaeser 2024
Inner Felicia Zamora 2023
Wonder Wheel Wo Chan 2022
Why So This Quiet Carl Phillips 2022

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