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Title Author Year
Resist Brandy Nālani McDougall 2021
Moving the Bones Rick Barot 2021
Ship of Theseus Rodney Gomez 2021
Untethered Allison Joseph 2020
Self James Oppenheim 1916
A Dedication Lucian B. Watkins 1903
Farewell Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1895
Riding Cynthia Cruz 2019
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered] Diane Seuss 2019
Love Songs (I) Mina Loy 1915
Reapers Jean Toomer 1923
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74) William Shakespeare 1904
Against my love shall be, as I am now (Sonnet 63) William Shakespeare 1904
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5) William Shakespeare 1904
Convalescence Amy Lowell 2018
Drifting Flowers of the Sea Sadakichi Hartmann 2018
Flowers and Bullets Martín Espada 2018
To Science Edgar Allan Poe 1902
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Any day now you will have the ability to feed the name] Terrance Hayes 2017

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