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Title Author Year
Make Me Human or Give Me Death May Yang 2017
[London, my beautiful] F. S. Flint 2017
Meditation Charles Baudelaire 2017
A Bell, Still Unrung Safiya Sinclair 2016
Little Box Marilyn Nelson 2016
In Tongues Tonya M. Foster 2015
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
I like to see it lap the Miles (43) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
Love for This Book Pablo Neruda 1966
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
Old Story Catherine Barnett 2012
[The rage that shatters a man into children,] César Vallejo 2026
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
The Spirit of Poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1886
Loom Lee Trumpfheller 2024
[O Málik! I pray thee go for the wine full early] Abu Nuwas 1922
Family Secret Nancy Kuhl 2023

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