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Title Author Year
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
The Plot Against the Giant Wallace Stevens 1923
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
DEAR GABRIELLE, Andrea Abi-Karam 2025
One Year ago—jots what? (296) Emily Dickinson 1945
Season of Grief Khadijah Queen 2023
Moon Tonight Gwendolyn Bennett 1926
From “. . . Again” Mark Nowak 2023
The Mask Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
Of a Certain Friendship Elsa Gidlow 1923
Not Once Sharon Olds 2022
Mistletoe Walter de la Mare 1922
Like a Strong Tree Claude McKay 1925
Red Language Heid E. Erdrich 2020
Flower Song / Flor y Canto / In Xochitl In Cuicatl Francisco X. Alarcón 1992
The Leopard Yusef Komunyakaa 2020
When Bad Things Happen to Good People Lynn Melnick 2019
Song of Myself, 9 Walt Whitman 1891
Great Art Tim Dlugos 2011
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74) William Shakespeare 1904

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