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Title Author Year
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
United Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012
Our House Sophie Cabot Black 2016
Exclusively on Venus Trace Peterson 2016
Binsey Poplars Gerard Manley Hopkins 2016
Hospital Writing Workshop Rafael Campo 2014
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890
the lost women Lucille Clifton 1989
The Soul’s Expression Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
Home After Three Months Away Robert Lowell 1976
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard Charles Wright 1995
An Old-Fashioned Song John Hollander 1993
How Can It Be I Am No Longer I Lucie Brock-Broido 1997
Quiet Janani Balasubramanian 2026
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838
The Truth About a Lie Leonora Speyer 1922
The Indian’s Awakening Zitkála-Šá 1916
Gitanjali 10 Rabindranath Tagore 1916

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