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Monotone Carl Sandburg 1916
Hundreds of Purple Octopus Moms Are Super Weird, and They’re Doomed January Gill O’Neil 2019
In Tall Grass Carl Sandburg 1918
A Sonnet on Cervantes Rubén Darío 1916
A Grain of Sand Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
The Unreturning Wilfred Owen 1933
Sorrows of Werther William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is Patrick Rosal 2018
Origin Story Jenny Xie 2018
And Now Upon My Head the Crown Phillip B. Williams 2018
Winter Branches Margaret Widdemer 2017
Pomegranate Means Grenade Jamaal May 2016
The Continental Army Marilyn Nelson 2016
Center of the World Safiya Sinclair 2016
The Dark Hills Edwin Arlington Robinson 1920
Florida Doll Sonnet Denise Duhamel 2015
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
here rests Lucille Clifton 1991
For N & K Gina Myers 2012
Health Rafael Campo 2010

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