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Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year Maxine Kumin 2008
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] Charles Wright 2007
Monna Innominata [I loved you first] Christina Rossetti 1881
Exquisite Candidate Denise Duhamel 1997
The Basic Con Lew Welch 1979
The Conjugation of the Paramecium Muriel Rukeyser 1968
The Mad Potter John Hollander 1988
Self-Portrait as Miranda Geri Doran 2005
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts Sydney Lea 2005
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You Abdellatif Laâbi 2003
Come Up From the Fields Father Walt Whitman 1891
Souvenir of the Ancient World Carlos Drummond de Andrade 2002
Today I Went Down Breyten Breytenbach 2002
Reclaiming Perspective Lauren Camp 2026
Self Organizing Networks A. L. Nielsen 2021
Which God Were You? John Hennessy 2024
Megaloceros J. Bailey Hutchinson 2026
Graves Kevin Prufer 2025

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