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Title Author Year
Fairy Tale Ron Padgett 2001
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World Sherman Alexie 2009
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
Seven Years Daisy Fried 2006
Like Most Revelations Richard Howard 1994
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Old Lizard Federico García Lorca 2005
Heroic Simile Robert Hass 1978
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
Older Elektra Jenny Tunedal 2026
Post Partum Nikita Deshpande 2026
The Sea / Is Sacred Still Andrew Calis 2025
The Earth-Child in the Grass Katherine Mansfield 1923
Failed Poems Jessica Abughattas 2025
Nostalgia Jessie Redmon Fauset 1927
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024
Rain César Vallejo 1918
A Midnight Woman to the Bobby Claude McKay 1912
Gitanjali 34 Rabindranath Tagore 1916

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