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Title Author Year
Election Year Richard Blanco 2016
One Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
The Vampire Rudyard Kipling 1897
Queer Frank Bidart 2012
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
i sing of Olaf glad and big E. E. Cummings 1931
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
Beans Mary Oliver 2004
Love Song William Carlos Williams 2008
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Nâzim Hikmet 1986
The Sleepers Walt Whitman 1891
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
No Second Troy W. B. Yeats 1912
Salvage Ada Limón 2022
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 1842
Good-Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Résumé Dorothy Parker 1926

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