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Title Author Year
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
On the Mississippi Hamlin Garland 1893
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
La Figlia Che Piange T. S. Eliot 1917
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1896
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Robert Lowell 1976
I Have Built a Garden … Diana Bellessi 2026
Contemplations While Holding Sunchokes During a Blizzard Yesenia Montilla 2026
“I came here to be a poet …” Michael Montlack 2026
Richard’s Not Such a Die-Hard Christian After All Michelle Bitting 2026
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
Youth Frank Horne 1927
Wolf Moon Susan Mitchell 2025
Mom Refaat Alareer 2024
Howling Jayne Cortez 2025
In Absence—This Unknowing Bianca Stone 2022
Lost and Found Ruelaine Stokes 2024
Critique of My Thighs Fatima Malik 2025
Hymn of Nature Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1851
The Lord is American W. J. Lofton 2025

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