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Title Author Year
Home-Coming Léonie Adams 2017
The Everglades Campbell McGrath 2016
Sea Lily H.D. 2016
The August Preoccupations Catherine Barnett 2016
1905 Marilyn Nelson 2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening] Claudia Rankine 2014
Blackbottom Toi Derricotte 2013
Etta’s Elegy Maureen Seaton 2014
Flood James Joyce 1917
Elegy for my husband Toi Derricotte 2012
from Blue Dark Deborah Landau 2011
In Passing Stanley Plumly 2000
The Sharks Denise Levertov 1957
The Phoenix Hafez 1876
Humanimal [Feral children are fatty] Bhanu Kapil 2008
The Aeneid, Book VI [First, the sky and the earth] Virgil 2006
Orpheus Robert Kelly 2005
The Old Year John Clare 1845
A Christmas Carol George Wither 1622
The Mediterranean Allen Tate 1937

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