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Title Author Year
Corpse Flower Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2018
Calculations Brenda Cárdenas 2016
Letter to the Northern Lights Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2016
The Tree Sparrows Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Ode to People Who Hate Me Carmen Giménez 2023
Time-Sensitive Franny Choi 2023
American Sonnet for the New Year Terrance Hayes 2022
The Fruits of Death Ameen Rihani 1905
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
Purple Kwame Dawes 2019
Poof Amy Gerstler 2019
Endymion Oscar Wilde 2018
Images Jaime Manrique 2016
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015
Meeting and Passing Robert Frost 2013
Horses at Midnight Without a Moon Jack Gilbert 2012
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] Eliza Lee Follen 1832

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