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Title Author Year
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838
Petrichor, After a Burial Denise Low 2025
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
Gitanjali 20 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before Ina Cariño 2023
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2022
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
How Heid E. Erdrich 2018
Maine Yet Miami Richard Blanco 2020
Rain William Saphier 1920
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
Rabbit francine j. harris 2020
The Task of Naming Me Sharon Olds 2019

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