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Title Author Year
Things I Will Tell My Children About Destiny Cynthia Manick 2017
Where Honey Comes From Maggie Smith 2017
Crude Lament William Carlos Williams 2016
Descent of the Composer Airea D. Matthews 2016
A Queerification Regie Cabico 2016
Blind Boone’s Apparitions Tyehimba Jess 2016
The Ghetto Lola Ridge 2016
The Children TJ Jarrett 2015
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen Jane Hirshfield 2011
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
here rests Lucille Clifton 1991
Three Songs at the End of Summer Jane Kenyon 2005
Essay on Man, Epistle I [excerpt] Alexander Pope 1734
Egg Aleš Šteger 2011
Electricity Geoffrey Nutter 2009
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—ay, love John Keats 1819
Signs of the Times Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
To His Coy Love Michael Drayton 1606
No, Love Is Not Dead Robert Desnos 1991
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing Robert Herrick 1648

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