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Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
American Girl Dolls Attend Mandatory Diversity Training Kortney Morrow 2020
Einstein’s Mother Tracy K. Smith 2020
XLV [Before the ice is in the pools] Emily Dickinson 1896
I Am Like a Leaf Yone Noguchi 1921
Today Matthew Zapruder 2019
What Will You Do? Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
Prayer for My Immigrant Relatives Lory Bedikian 2018
The Women’s Litany Margaret Widdemer 2018
Haiku [i am moving in] Sonia Sanchez 2018
I Wouldn’t Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance Kaveh Akbar 2018
Autumn Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
Coherence in Consequence Claudia Rankine 2017
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
Killing Flies Michael Dickman 2011
To Night Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind Carl Sandburg 1922
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
The Sleep Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1838

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