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Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Morning After The Election Regie Cabico 2024
Lament Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
[There is no Life or Death,] Mina Loy 1914
The Night Before I Leave Home Elisa Gonzalez 2023
The Harp of Broken Strings John Rollin Ridge 1850
The Corn Husker Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Lady, Lady Anne Spencer 1925
Dark Eye in September Paul Celan 2020
The Flower at My Window Lucian B. Watkins 1903
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter Mary Jean Chan 2019
Sleeping Beauty Nick Flynn 2019
Climbing Amy Lowell 2018
September Helen Hunt Jackson 1886
In Autumn Mark Irwin 2017
Soul Train Allison Joseph 2017
Brooding Grief D. H. Lawrence 2017
Afternoons Jorge H. Aigla 2016
Double Exposure May Swenson 2016
The World We Want Is Us Alice Walker 2016

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