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Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
The Cataclysm Ameen Rihani 1921
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017
Speaking of the future, Hamlet Mary Jo Bang 2020
The Murderess Alice Cary 1903
I Tried to Write a Poem Called “Imposter Syndrome” and Failed Emilia Phillips 2020
Let not my love be call'd idolatry (Sonnet 105) William Shakespeare 1904
That thou hast her, it is not all my grief (Sonnet 42) William Shakespeare 1904
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24) William Shakespeare 1904
The Self-Unseeing Thomas Hardy 2018
In Equal Sacrifice Robert Frost 1915
Drifting Flowers of the Sea Sadakichi Hartmann 2018
Barberism Terrance Hayes 2017
Liu Ch'e Ezra Pound 2017
Untitled Paul Carroll 2016
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016
2008, XII Wendell Berry 2016
Token Loss Kay Ryan 2014
Wedding Cake Naomi Shihab Nye 1998

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