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Title Author Year
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time* Countee Cullen 1925
An Invite to Eternity John Clare 1893
I Have a Rendezvous With Life Countee Cullen 1916
A Shropshire Lad, XXX A. E. Housman 1896
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë Charlotte Brontë 2016
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
Gitanjali 93 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Spell for the End of Grief Amie Whittemore 2015
The Crypt Seed Jackie Wang 2024
a brief meditation on breath Yesenia Montilla 2020
In Tall Grass Carl Sandburg 1918
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
The Battle-Field William Cullen Bryant 1878
Sometimes There Is A Day Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
OBIT [The Blue Dress] Victoria Chang 2018
Letters Found Near a Suicide Frank Horne 1927
Renee Nicole Good Is Murdered Cornelius Eady 2026
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Forest Phillips 2019

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