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Title Author Year
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904
The Sleeper Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Four-Leaf Clover Ella Higginson 2017
Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi Nathan McClain 2017
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
American Pharoah Ada Limón 2016
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016
15¢ Futures Marilyn Nelson 2015
Let Everything Happen to You Natalie Eilbert 2015
Kudzu Saeed Jones 2015
To My Mother Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Tithonus Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1860
A Family History Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1992
Letter Home Natasha Trethewey 2002
Sometimes with One I Love Walt Whitman 2013
Não, João Tracy K. Smith 2026
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
From “Will There Be Singing” Juliana Spahr 2020

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