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Title Author Year
The Moment Marie Howe 2011
Signs of the Times Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
The Metier of Blossoming Denise Levertov 1998
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Carrowmore Lucie Brock-Broido 1997
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
Poppy Field Victoria Chang 2026
Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton & Everybody Shows Up with Their Instrument Instead Daniel B. Summerhill 2026
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
A Southern Road Helene Johnson 1926
Interview Jordan Kapono Nakamura 2024
The New Remorse Oscar Wilde 1887
Indian Summer Dorothy Parker 1926
Nude Young Dancer Langston Hughes 1926
Taking Your Olympic Measure Alberto Ríos 2021
Letter to my sister Trapeta B. Mayson 2008
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires Forrest Gander 2020
The Winter Bird Jones Very 1883
A Prayer Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1918
Summer Magic Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922

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