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Title Author Year
The World Christina Rossetti 2017
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
Hamatreya Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
The Distant Moon Rafael Campo 1994
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025
I Come to See for Myself Nancy Mercado 2024
Gitanjali 13 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Lamb Richie Hofmann 2023
the poem is a dream telling you its time Marwa Helal 2022
Summer Night Langston Hughes 1926
To One of the Brave Lucian B. Watkins 1903
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
Ditty Kevin Young 2016
Brokeheart: Just like that Patrick Rosal 2014
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014

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