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Title Author Year
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Martín Espada 2003
Medusa Frieda Hughes 2003
Baby Tortoise D. H. Lawrence 1964
The Song in the Dream Saskia Hamilton 2001
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
Little Lion Face May Swenson 1987
Bearing Down Tina Chang 2026
Sleepless Nights Kim Addonizio 2026
Honeycrisp January Gill O’Neil 2026
Le Jardin des Tuileries Oscar Wilde 1885
The Sea / Is Sacred Still Andrew Calis 2025
Effete Poem Kay Gabriel 2024
Gitanjali 44 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Love Poem Attempt 3/? Taylor Byas 2023
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel Catherine Pierce 2020
It Bruises, Too Kwame Dawes 2022
[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.] Dimitri Reyes 2022
Fog Ruth Madievsky 2021
Moving the Bones Rick Barot 2021
Ode to Sitting in a Booth Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2021

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