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Gitanjali 57 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo 2023
Song of Myself, 7 Walt Whitman 1891
Dandelions Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Will You Come? Edward Thomas 2018
Natural History Sam Hamill 2018
What I Did Wrong Marie Howe 2017
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
Blue with Collapse Thomas Lux 2016
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Untitled [This is what was bequeathed us] Gregory Orr 2009
Grace for a Child Robert Herrick 1648
Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All Judith Viorst 1981
A Friendship Sophie Jewett 1910
“Song for Almeyda,” II. Gayl Jones 2022
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
Poème d’Automne Langston Hughes 1926
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020

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