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Title Author Year
Visits to St. Elizabeths Elizabeth Bishop 1979
In General Pattiann Rogers 2004
Northern Pike James Wright 1992
How To Orchestrate A Genocide Raffi Joe Wartanian 2025
Not Dead, but Sleeping Clara Ann Thompson 1908
To Mars from Arizona Alberto Ríos 2023
Your Hands Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Fracture Ellen Bass 2022
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel Catherine Pierce 2020
The Road Helene Johnson 1922
Thou Dusky Spirit Of The Wood Henry David Thoreau 1943
Patients Aurora Levins Morales 2013
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Wild Horses Paisley Rekdal 2020
The World-Soul Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1903
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128) William Shakespeare 1904
Against my love shall be, as I am now (Sonnet 63) William Shakespeare 1904
My Father as Cartographer Natasha Trethewey 2018

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