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Title Author Year
Tanka Sadakichi Hartmann 1916
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well Mahmoud Darwish 2007
The Fist Derek Walcott 1986
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
The Distant Moon Rafael Campo 1994
A Little Tooth Thomas Lux 1990
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2019
The Forest Reverie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
It Is Important To Be Something Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2018
Tending Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
A Political Litany Philip Freneau 1775
As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed Jack Prelutsky 1990
Filling Station Elizabeth Bishop 1979

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