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Title Author Year
Dear Mama (4) Wanda Coleman 2017
Liu Ch'e Ezra Pound 2017
What Do We Do—Now Ellen Hagan 2017
Night H.D. 2017
Descent of the Composer Airea D. Matthews 2016
Lunch Break Francisco Aragón 2016
Epithalamion Rickey Laurentiis 2015
Ode to the Unbroken World, Which Is Coming Thomas Lux 2015
A Greek Island Edward Hirsch 2013
Mnemonic Li-Young Lee 1986
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600
Underwoods: Epigram Robert Louis Stevenson 1899
Adam Lay Ibounden Anonymous 1400
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth David Rosenthal 1920
Old Photographs Gabeba Baderoon 2010
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
Dear Lonely Animal, Oni Buchanan 2008
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994
Sestina: Altaforte Ezra Pound 1956

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