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Title Author Year
Beatitude John Keene 2021
Gitanjali 91 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
Deer’s Breath of Every Color Max Early 2022
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
Appalling Heart Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
XLV [Before the ice is in the pools] Emily Dickinson 1896
The Rules Leila Chatti 2019
I Have Read the Whole Moon Emily Skaja 2019
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Hair Francisco Aragón 2018
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way Martín Espada 2018
Diaspora Sonnet 25 Oliver de la Paz 2018
Immigrant Can’t Write Poetry Wang Ping 2018
Poem of Regret for an Old Friend Meghan O’Rourke 2017
The Mystery Paul Laurence Dunbar 2015

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