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Title Author Year
Nocturne José Asunción Silva 1925
On Self-Knowledge Kahlil Gibran 1923
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger 1917
The Untold Want Walt Whitman 1891
Not Brave Maha Hashwi 2026
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour Wallace Stevens 1954
Praise Song for the Day Elizabeth Alexander 2009
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (249) Emily Dickinson 1861
Corona Paul Celan 2020
In my craft or sullen art Dylan Thomas
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!] William Shakespeare 1608
The Portrait Stanley Kunitz 1991
i didn’t eat the sun ire’ne lara silva 0026
Let Love, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
The Fountain of Blood Charles Baudelaire 1994
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
I Loved You Before I Was Born Li-Young Lee 2018
Correct the Record, Can We? Adam Falkner 2026
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
Lyrics: II (17) José Garcia Villa 2019

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