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Title Author Year
Mercy Tyehimba Jess 2016
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends W. B. Yeats 1899
Spring Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Killing Flies Michael Dickman 2011
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Sisyphus Shara Lessley 2026
Everybody’s Autobiography Tracy K. Smith 2024
black love Evie Shockley 2023
Rose Song Anne Reeve Aldrich 1889
For the Bird Singing Before Dawn Kim Stafford 2022
[The faint shadow of the morning moon?] Yone Noguchi 1920
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Forest Phillips 2019
A Boy Can Wear a Dress John Bosworth 2018
On a Day, In the World Brenda Hillman 2018
Ghosts Kiki Petrosino 2017
Leave No Trace Maggie Dietz 2016
A Bird Song Christina Rossetti 1873
Action Poem Helen Hoyt 1915
The Dandelion Vachel Lindsay 1916

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