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Title Author Year
A Mona Lisa Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
My Love Bruce Nugent 1926
XLV [Before the ice is in the pools] Emily Dickinson 1896
From “Nox” [Autopsy is a term historians use ...] Anne Carson 2010
Evening Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
Four-Leaf Clover Ella Higginson 2017
Flores Woman Tracy K. Smith 2017
Ghosts Kiki Petrosino 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
The Mystic Blue D. H. Lawrence 2017
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
Brad Pitt Aaron Smith 2005
Fire Strike Margaret Noodin 2026
The Specific Ocean Jenny Browne 2026
I begin the day thinking Taylor Byas 2025
As if some little Arctic flower Emily Dickinson 1890
Kaōnōn Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 2024
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
Mother's Rules Yalie Saweda Kamara 2016

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