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Title Author Year
Revolutionary Letter #2 Diane di Prima 1971
Nothing Krysten Hill 2020
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
Souvenir Edna St. Vincent Millay 1923
Self-Portrait with Eraser Andrea Cohen 2018
Deleting Names (A Decaying Sestina) Lawrence Schimel 2018
Ongoing Jenny Xie 2018
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
Endymion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2016
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last Lisa Olstein 2016
Hoar-Frost Amy Lowell 2015
Not Here, Exactly Joanna Fuhrman 2015
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
To George Sand: A Desire Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
Olney Hymns, I, [Walking with God] William Cowper 1779
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
The Sleep Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1838
The Thread of Life Christina Rossetti 1881
Sojourns in the Parallel World Denise Levertov 1996

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