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Title Author Year
How to Start Over Stuart Kestenbaum 2019
What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness Shane McCrae 2020
The Rainbow Effie Waller Smith 1909
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Thomas Moore 2019
The Task of Naming Me Sharon Olds 2019
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891
The Trumpet Edward Thomas 1922
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are (Sonnet 13) William Shakespeare 1904
Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally Elizabeth Alexander 2018
Amor Fati Catherine Barnett 2018
Starlings Maggie Smith 2018
Sonku [what i want] Sonia Sanchez 2018
And Now Upon My Head the Crown Phillip B. Williams 2018
Talent Layli Long Soldier 2017
The Map Marie Howe 2016
City Moon Francisco Aragón 2016
Four-Word Lines May Swenson 2016
Hey Phil Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
The Exposed Nest Robert Frost 2016
The Ghetto Lola Ridge 2016

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