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Title Author Year
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
What the Angels Left Marie Howe 1988
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
The Life of Trees Dorianne Laux 2009
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell 1976
The Changing Light Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2000
An Evening Discussion Chen Chen 2026
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
Addiction Major Jackson 2025
The Changeling Charlotte Mew 1921
the poem is a dream telling you its time Marwa Helal 2022
American Sonnet for the New Year Terrance Hayes 2022
The Flame Tree Evelyn Flores 2022
Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me Jane Hirshfield 2021
gathering words María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado 2016
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch] Claudia Rankine 2014
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891

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