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Title Author Year
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
Merciles Beaute Geoffrey Chaucer 1375
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) William Shakespeare 1609
The Heron Linda Hogan 2008
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing Robert Herrick 1648
In Vain Jack Kerouac 2006
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls E. E. Cummings 1923
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994
Learning Judith Viorst 1981
To My Brother Miguel in Memoriam César Vallejo 1993
June Light Richard Wilbur 1947
Fidelity William Ward Butler 2026
[Each morning before dawn,] Gary Young 2026
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
Future History of Earth’s Birds Amie Whittemore 2025
After Morlot Avenue Carlie Hoffman 2024
Not Dead, but Sleeping Clara Ann Thompson 1908
This Is My Heart For You Silas House 2013
Mother Dear Claude McKay 1912

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