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Title Author Year
The Tired Worker Claude McKay 1922
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d. Mark Twain 1885
lake-loop Natalie Diaz 2020
Dead Winifred M. Letts 2018
Trench Duty Siegfried Sassoon 2018
The Women’s Litany Margaret Widdemer 2018
Leave No Trace Maggie Dietz 2016
By the Waters of Babylon [V. Currents] Emma Lazarus 1887
On Quitting Edgar Guest 1912
Stillbirth Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2007
Momentum Catherine Doty 2005
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
In a Village in the West Bank Naomi Shihab Nye 2025
Places Willyce Kim 2023
I Have a Friend Anne Spencer 1927
109 Bermuda Kenzie Allen 2022
A Coast-Nightmare Christina Rossetti 1896
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020

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