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Title Author Year
The Colonel Carolyn Forché 1981
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
Love Song William Carlos Williams 2008
Salvage Ada Limón 2022
Beans Mary Oliver 2004
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time* Countee Cullen 1925
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
Queer Frank Bidart 2012
i sing of Olaf glad and big E. E. Cummings 1931
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
So we’ll go no more a roving Lord George Gordon Byron 1830
Mother Country Richard Blanco 2019
Problems with Hurricanes Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Nâzim Hikmet 1986
Their Pasts Ama Codjoe 2026
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667
Let Me Begin Again Major Jackson 2021
From “Pinplay” Anne Carson 2016

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