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The American Flag Nicolás Heredia y Mota 1892
Coming Out of the Shower Armen Davoudian 2024
You’re the Top Ellen Bass 2024
To a Snowflake Francis Thompson 1897
Mothers Arrange Their Aches at Night Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes 1926
Insurrecto Chris Santiago 2022
With the Lark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
The Waiting Jane Wong 2021
The Road at My Door W. B. Yeats 1970
When Fannie Lou Hamer Said Mahogany L. Browne 2020
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter Mary Jean Chan 2019
Boston Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Bad Things Happen to Good People Lynn Melnick 2019
A Sonnet on Cervantes Rubén Darío 1916
I used to be a roller coaster girl jessica Care moore 2019
Winter Walk John Clare 1836
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
The Difference Thomas Hardy 1916
Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead Dorothy Chan 2018

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