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Title Author Year
Compensation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
From Tanka Diary Harryette Mullen 2014
Sonnet Bill Knott 1989
Anxieties Donna Masini 2014
Muffin of Sunsets Elaine Equi 2013
“I’m afraid of death” Kathleen Ossip 2013
The Maenads Ursula K. Le Guin 2012
The New Year Emma Lazarus 1882
New Year’s Morning Helen Hunt Jackson 1892
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew Ross Gay 2011
Fear of the Future John Koethe 2009
Me and the Otters Dorothea Lasky 2010
Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
The City of God David Baker 2001
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me John Rybicki 2008
Restless Ghost Eric Pankey 2008
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
From A. Van Jordan 2004
The Widening Sky Edward Hirsch 2003
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003

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