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Quiet Janani Balasubramanian 2026
Petrichor, After a Burial Denise Low 2025
Goodbye Geoffrey Brock 2025
As if some little Arctic flower Emily Dickinson 1890
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
Imagination William Rose Benét 1914
The Hermit Claude McKay 1912
The Battle-Field William Cullen Bryant 1878
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein Philip Freneau 1809
Amores (VII) E. E. Cummings 1923
Songs (IV) E. E. Cummings 1923
Kid, these are train tracks, Jeffrey Bean 2018
Trench Duty Siegfried Sassoon 2018
The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice Brenda Hillman 2018
Bonfire Opera Danusha Laméris 2016
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017

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