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Title Author Year
Albondigas Richard Siken 2025
[There is no Life or Death,] Mina Loy 1914
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
News Item Dorothy Parker 1926
To the White Fiends Claude McKay 1922
Paper Cuts Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2019
How to Dismantle a Heart Rodney Gomez 2018
The Willow-Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Given to Rust Vievee Francis 2017
My 24 Hour Version Lois Red Elk 2017
The Clans Richard Calmit Adams 2017
Adolescence Claude McKay 2017
Hunch Jay Parini 2016
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
The Sandman Margaret Thomson Janvier 1912
A Family History Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1992

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