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Title Author Year
Aspiration Henrietta Cordelia Ray 1910
The Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 1922
Metamorphosis James Richardson 2013
Ashes of Life Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
The Helmsman H.D. 1916
Ode to My Hands Tim Seibles 2010
Ghosts That Need Reminding Dana Levin 2011
To George Sand: A Recognition Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
A Situation for Mrs. Biswas Prageeta Sharma 2010
Labor Jericho Brown 2010
Assault Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Providence Natasha Trethewey 2006
The Alien Greg Delanty 2007
The Passing of the Year Robert W. Service 1912
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Good Night Wilhelm Müller 2003
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997

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