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Title Author Year
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
Essay on Man, Epistle I [excerpt] Alexander Pope 1734
Curse of the Cat Woman Edward Field 2007
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
Letter from a Haunted Room Lisa Sewell 2006
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
To Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace 1649
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Deluxe Mourning Package Rachel McKibbens 2026
Post Partum Nikita Deshpande 2026
Imago Dei Nora Hikari 2024
[There is no Life or Death,] Mina Loy 1914
Virginia, Autumn Molly McCully Brown 2023
The Wall Donald Justice 2004
The Dirge Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
Twilight Hours Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
For Mauna a Wākea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2022

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