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Title Author Year
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
Five Murders Randall Mann 2026
[I never knew what to name from my life and what to hide] Gabriel Antonio Reed 2026
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
The Plot Against the Giant Wallace Stevens 1923
Future History of Earth’s Birds Amie Whittemore 2025
The Things I Love Scottie McKenzie Frasier 1920
In life I’m no longer capable of love, Diane Seuss 2025
Ipswich Eugene Field 1906
The Truth About a Lie Leonora Speyer 1922
A Midnight Woman to the Bobby Claude McKay 1912
Rainy Night Dorothy Parker 1926
A Song on the Water Thomas Lovell Beddoes 2021
One Summer Ann-Margaret Lim 2021
Never Again Pamela Sneed 2020
Born Frees Pamela Sneed 2019
Praise Angelo Geter 2020
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur Ellen Bass 2020
Unwished For Shira Erlichman 2019
etymology Airea D. Matthews 2019

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