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Title Author Year
Losing the 440-Yard Dash Afaa Michael Weaver 2016
My Proteins Jane Hirshfield 2015
When There Were Ghosts Alberto Ríos 2014
To Thomas Moore Lord George Gordon Byron 1830
Jenny Kiss'd Me Leigh Hunt 1838
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
The Hug Thom Gunn 2009
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
1990 special Charles Bukowski 2007
The Anniversary John Donne 1633
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
At the Gym Mark Doty 2002
Boaz Asleep Victor Hugo 2001
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
Ode to Goby Juliana Spahr 2023
less hope Danez Smith 2022
The Indian’s Awakening Zitkála-Šá 1916
Map Linda Hogan 2014
A Winter Twilight Angelina Weld Grimké 1923
[’Twas the new moon!] Matsuo Bashō 1899

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