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Title Author Year
Hundreds of Purple Octopus Moms Are Super Weird, and They’re Doomed January Gill O’Neil 2019
Trayvon, Redux Rita Dove 2013
Where I Am Not Omar Sakr 2019
Ball’s Bluff Herman Melville 1866
What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet Tso-le-oh-woh 1853
Truth Hala Alyan 2019
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced (Sonnet 64) William Shakespeare 1903
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5) William Shakespeare 1904
Doing Rosmarie Waldrop 2016
Disarmament John McCrae 2018
In Neglect Robert Frost 2018
To Science Edgar Allan Poe 1902
Rootless Jenny Xie 2018
Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote Diane Seuss 2018
The Ghost Frank Bidart 2018
Saudade John Freeman 2017
Talent Layli Long Soldier 2017
Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait Mary Hickman 2016
The August Preoccupations Catherine Barnett 2016
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream Charlotte Brontë 1846

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