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Title Author Year
No longer mourn for me when I am dead (Sonnet 71) William Shakespeare 1904
Archipelago Kendel Hippolyte 2018
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror Mary Jo Bang 2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’ Danez Smith 2017
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes 1994
Song of Myself, 10 Walt Whitman 1891
Flying Sarah Arvio 2002
Letter Home Natasha Trethewey 2002
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 1949
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020
Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
Snow Song Frank Dempster Sherman 1897

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