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Title Author Year
Daughters, 1900 Marilyn Nelson 1990
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Noon Eugenio Montale 2026
To My Daughter’s Dead Name Lance Larsen 2025
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
Why paint night over nightless day? Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
The Black Outside Joy Priest 2024
When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation Kyle Tran Myhre 2024
Imago Dei Nora Hikari 2024
Ocean Robinson Jeffers 1928
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Canada Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
Harlem Wine Countee Cullen 1925
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018
The Road at My Door W. B. Yeats 1970
Testimony: 1968 Rita Dove 2020
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters Oscar Wilde 1886

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