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Title Author Year
Past Light Pimone Triplett 2005
The Blade of Nostalgia Chase Twichell 1991
Carrowmore Lucie Brock-Broido 1997
On the Mississippi Hamlin Garland 1893
The Teacher Hilarie Jones 2002
In the Next Galaxy Ruth Stone 2002
Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day Cynthia Zarin 2002
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Those Graves in Rome Larry Levis 1985
In Memory of M. B. Anna Akhmatova 1973
A Divine Image William Blake 1794
Syringa John Ashbery 1975
​​In Memoriam [±That after all this I have still chosen life.] Jimin Seo 2026
Statement of Purpose Kyle Carrero Lopez 2026
The Iliad, Book VI [The Price of Honor] Homer 2023
New Tradition/新传统 Evan Wang 2026
II [Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.] W. H. Auden 1930
My Dream Anonymous 1917
Postures of Devotion Kimberly Blaeser 2025
Night Was Done Mikhail Kuzmin 1921

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