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Title Author Year
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
The Lonely Street William Carlos Williams 1921
Memory Anne Brontë 1920
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d. Mark Twain 1885
To a Soldier in Hospital Winifred M. Letts 2018
Hurricane Yona Harvey 2017
Central America in My Heart Oscar Gonzales 2016
Self-Portrait as Artemis Tarfia Faizullah 2015
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
Song of the Trees Mary Colborne-Veel 1918
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
A Ditty Sir Philip Sidney 2012
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain] François Villon 1965
Shirt Robert Pinsky 1990
Evening Hawk Robert Penn Warren 1985

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