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Title Author Year
To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore 1921
Left Nikky Finney 2011
Song of the Trees Mary Colborne-Veel 1918
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
Snow Song Frank Dempster Sherman 1897
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
Latin & Soul Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
Monna Innominata [I loved you first] Christina Rossetti 1881
Blackout Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain] François Villon 1965
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
A House in Taos Langston Hughes 1927
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020
Do Not Cheer, Men are Dying Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
From “1915: The Trenches” Conrad Aiken 1917
Nationhood Laura Da’ 2018
Black Swan Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2018
On a Day, In the World Brenda Hillman 2018
My Friends Ali Power 2017

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