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Title Author Year
Self-Portrait as Artemis Tarfia Faizullah 2015
Blue Dementia Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
Text Messages Jordan Davis 2010
The First Night Billy Collins 2008
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
Persuasion William Wordsworth 1822
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
A Coast-Nightmare Christina Rossetti 1896
How To Forgive Susan Nguyen 2022
Tomorrow Is a Place Sanna Wani 2021
lake-loop Natalie Diaz 2020
Evening Song Willa Cather 1903
Gratitude Jon Davis 2019
Love is a Flame George Marion McClellan 1916
Evening Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
Black Swan Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2018
On a Day, In the World Brenda Hillman 2018
Christmas Eve Ella Higginson 2017
Coherence in Consequence Claudia Rankine 2017
Leave No Trace Maggie Dietz 2016

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