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Song of Myself, 9 Walt Whitman 1891
Amores (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
NDN Homopoetics Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear (Sonnet 77) William Shakespeare 1904
La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente Oscar Wilde 2018
For Sister Gwen Brooks Sonia Sanchez 2018
A Single Woman’s Bedroom Yi Lei 2018
The Gray Heron Galway Kinnell 2018
From “Surge” Etel Adnan 2017
I guess it was my destiny to live so long June Jordan 2017
The Bombing of Baghdad June Jordan 2017
Childhood in the Latin Caribbean Victor Hernández Cruz 2017
Cinderella J. R. Solonche 2017
Soul Train Allison Joseph 2017
Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love Katie Willingham 2017
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath Natasha Trethewey 2016
Faithful Forest Alberto Ríos 2016
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016
The Cry Paisley Rekdal 2016
1905 Marilyn Nelson 2015

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