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Title Author Year
Rally Elizabeth Alexander 2018
United Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
Living in Numbers Claire Lee 2013
The Forest in the Axe André Breton 2003
Left Nikky Finney 2011
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness John Donne 1623
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
I Love You Sara Teasdale 1911
In Jerusalem Mahmoud Darwish 2005
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
5 & 7 & 5 Anselm Hollo 2001
Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
At the Gym Mark Doty 2002
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
Several Tremendous Richard Siken 2025
Lament Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
For a Birthday Sophie Jewett 1910
Beatitude John Keene 2021
Drops Fell on the Roof Ana Castillo 2021
The Lost Bird Carolina Coronado 1878

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