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Title Author Year
The Cloisters Jorge Luis Borges 1999
[There is no Life or Death,] Mina Loy 1914
The Night Before I Leave Home Elisa Gonzalez 2023
The Harp of Broken Strings John Rollin Ridge 1850
Lady, Lady Anne Spencer 1925
The Flower at My Window Lucian B. Watkins 1903
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter Mary Jean Chan 2019
Amores (VII) E. E. Cummings 1923
Sleeping Beauty Nick Flynn 2019
Climbing Amy Lowell 2018
Prayer Galway Kinnell 2018
Paris Willa Cather 1903
Hurry Marie Howe 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
Soul Train Allison Joseph 2017
Brooding Grief D. H. Lawrence 2017
Astronomers Locate a New Planet Matthew Olzmann 2016
Double Exposure May Swenson 2016
The World We Want Is Us Alice Walker 2016
My Proteins Jane Hirshfield 2015

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