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Title Author Year
Tackle Football Dan Chiasson 2013
Dear Friends Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897
The Moods W. B. Yeats 1899
Elegy for my husband Toi Derricotte 2012
Thursday Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Alive Naomi Shihab Nye 2010
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree D. A. Powell 2010
Insomnia Alicia Ostriker 2009
How Much? Carl Sandburg 1922
Still Life Marianne Boruch 2008
Like Most Revelations Richard Howard 1994
Heroic Simile Robert Hass 1978
Song H.D. 1921
I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer Angel Nafis 2026
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Post Partum Nikita Deshpande 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
The Earth-Child in the Grass Katherine Mansfield 1923
The Owl Gia Anansi-Shakur 2025
The City William Rose Benét 1920

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