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Title Author Year
When my love swears that she is made of truth (Sonnet 138) William Shakespeare 2016
The Mystery Paul Laurence Dunbar 2015
The Dandelion Vachel Lindsay 1916
Home to Roost Kay Ryan 2005
Six Words Lloyd Schwartz 2003
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
Sandwich Kazim Ali 2026
Do Not Run Farnaz Fatemi 2024
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
Ode to Goby Juliana Spahr 2023
Let No Charitable Hope Elinor Wylie 2023
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Inupiaq Women dg nanouk okpik 2022
Abomunist Manifesto Bob Kaufman 2019
Much Later Gertrude Stein 1926
Indian Summer Dorothy Parker 1926
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
How Heid E. Erdrich 2018

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