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Title Author Year
Chess Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2015
here rests Lucille Clifton 1991
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746 William Collins 1746
Moonlight Sara Teasdale 1920
Each year Dora Malech 2010
Plural Happiness David Rivard 2011
We Manage Most When We Manage Small Linda Gregg 2008
Midwinter Day [Excerpt] Bernadette Mayer 1982
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
Catch a Little Rhyme Eve Merriam 1966
Go, lovely rose! Edmund Waller 1645
Dearest Reader Michael Palmer 1984
Apart (Les Separes) Louis Simpson 1997
Daniel’s Response to Jet, or Why Do You Trust Her? celeste doaks 2026
A Poet Sherwood Anderson 2026
When the World Tells Me There Is Nothing Good Coming out of My Mouth & I Am at My Breaking Point Anastacia-Reneé 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
How She Heard It Todd Davis 2026
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Willow, Stop Weeping Sally Wen Mao 2025

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