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Title Author Year
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Cardiology Rafael Campo 2018
My 24 Hour Version Lois Red Elk 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
A Family History Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1992
MMXXVI Rowan Ricardo Phillips 2026
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind Thomas Wyatt 1550
Home Norma Elia Cantú 2019
Gitanjali 45 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90) William Shakespeare 1904
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (Sonnet 62) William Shakespeare 1904
Given to Rust Vievee Francis 2017
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror Mary Jo Bang 2017
A Woman Sleeps on an Island Marjorie Agosín 2016
Hunch Jay Parini 2016
ode to the puritan in me Ross Gay 2016

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