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Title Author Year
Had the Vines Budded, Were the Pomegranates in Bloom S. Brook Corfman 2019
The Right to Grief Carl Sandburg
Spilled Sugar Thylias Moss 2016
Ashore Ernest Hilbert 2009
From “Migrations” Gloria Gervitz 2025
Bereavement is the Source of Beauty Han Yong-un 1926
Failed Poems Jessica Abughattas 2025
Legacy Ted Kooser 2024
Lightning Bug Colin Pope 2024
After William Ernest Henley 1908
Praise Song Hafizah Augustus Geter 2023
who were these goddesses Jeannette L. Clariond 2022
Life and Art Aldous Huxley 1920
Yearnings For Home Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1846
At the Grave of the Forgotten Effie Waller Smith 1909
The Anxious Dead John McCrae 2018
Parties Lauren Camp 2026
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
Winter Stores Charlotte Brontë 1846
“you don’t even know me/i’m hanging from a tree” Danez Smith 2022

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