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Title Author Year
Stoicism for Beginners Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Sisyphus Shara Lessley 2026
no one wants to be rough anymore Xan Forest Phillips 2024
The Birds’ Lullaby Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Hard Daddy Langston Hughes 1922
Comment Dorothy Parker 1926
[The faint shadow of the morning moon?] Yone Noguchi 1920
Skin Tight Ishmael Reed 2021
[A cloud of flowers!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
The Flower at My Window Lucian B. Watkins 1903
Einstein’s Mother Tracy K. Smith 2020
XLV [Before the ice is in the pools] Emily Dickinson 1896
I Am Like a Leaf Yone Noguchi 1921
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing Walt Whitman 1892
XXXV [A man saw a ball of gold in the sky] Stephen Crane 2017
Flores Woman Tracy K. Smith 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
Legendary Nicole Sealey 2017
Dear Exile, Mai Der Vang 2017
Coherence in Consequence Claudia Rankine 2017

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