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Title Author Year
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Ecce Puer James Joyce 1936
A Song for Many Movements Audre Lorde 1978
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
In the Beginning Donika Kelly 2021
Tasting the Earth James Oppenheim 1924
Magnitude and Bond Nicole Terez Dutton 2019
Ode to My Hair Aria Aber 2019
No longer mourn for me when I am dead (Sonnet 71) William Shakespeare 1904
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Prodigal Linda Gregerson 2016
Rooms Remembered Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2015
Tender Buttons [A Long Dress] Gertrude Stein 1914
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
Be Near Me Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
“There Is No Such Thing as the Past” [iii] Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025

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