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Title Author Year
Lullaby of the Onion Miguel Hernández 1989
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997
[We waved them off long ago. So why] Dimitri Psurtsev 2026
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
Bildungssonnet Billy-Ray Belcourt 2026
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
Daughter Danusha Laméris 2024
DEAR GABRIELLE, Andrea Abi-Karam 2025
Coming Out of the Shower Armen Davoudian 2024
You’re the Top Ellen Bass 2024
Gitanjali 73 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
The Dirge Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
Thou Dusky Spirit Of The Wood Henry David Thoreau 1943
What She Said Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires Forrest Gander 2020
A Painter’s Thoughts John Yau 2020
Ink-Light Natalie Diaz 2020
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Thomas Moore 2019
Today Matthew Zapruder 2019

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