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Title Author Year
The Earthlings Matthew Olzmann 2023
Apparition Stéphane Mallarmé 1920
Pledge Allegiance Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2020
Inscription Herman Melville 1864
On Freedom Kahlil Gibran 1923
Move Alicia Ostriker 2018
The Conqueror Worm Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Giver of Stars Amy Lowell 1914
Prayer of the Backhanded Jericho Brown 2016
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905
’N’em Jericho Brown 2014
Daily Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Affirmation Donald Hall 2002
For every bird a nest (79) Emily Dickinson 1929
One Way or Another Maya C. Popa 2022
The Dramatists Dorothy Parker 1926
A Meeting Edith Wharton 2019
Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World Martín Espada 2017
poem to my uterus Lucille Clifton 1991
It was not Death, for I stood up (510) Emily Dickinson 1890

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