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Title Author Year
Going There Jack Gilbert 2001
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard Charles Wright 1995
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses Alberto Ríos 1990
Prayer Jorie Graham 2002
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
A Certain Point Edgar Kunz 2026
Nothing Promised Avia Tadmor 2025
Fate Ralph Waldo Emerson 1900
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
no one wants to be rough anymore Xan Forest Phillips 2024
Kaōnōn Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 2024
[There is no Life or Death,] Mina Loy 1914
Moon Tonight Gwendolyn Bennett 1926
The Wall Donald Justice 2004
The Haunted House Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1834
Dakota Homecoming Gwen Westerman 2018
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires Forrest Gander 2020
Today Matthew Zapruder 2019
A Sonnet on Cervantes Rubén Darío 1916

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