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Title Author Year
What Seems Like Joy Kaveh Akbar 2017
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
To Dorothy Marvin Bell 2000
Man Carrying Thing Wallace Stevens 1980
Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope 1734
Late Autumn Wasp James Hoch 2007
A Little Tooth Thomas Lux 1990
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966
First Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 2005
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
Obsession Charles Baudelaire 2025
An Ante-Bellum Sermon Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Silhouette Janice Lobo Sapigao 2020
Wonder Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
Prodigal Linda Gregerson 2016
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016

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