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Title Author Year
The Uses of Poetry William Carlos Williams 1909
Monna Innominata [I loved you first] Christina Rossetti 1881
Exquisite Candidate Denise Duhamel 1997
The Blue Terrance Terrance Hayes 2006
Iris David St. John 1991
Broadway Mark Doty 1993
The Conjugation of the Paramecium Muriel Rukeyser 1968
The Mad Potter John Hollander 1988
Country Fair Charles Simic 1991
Go Greyhound Bob Hicok 2004
Souvenir of the Ancient World Carlos Drummond de Andrade 2002
Star Quilt Roberta Hill Whiteman 1984
Lullaby of the Onion Miguel Hernández 1989
Buying Stock Denise Duhamel 1993
The Pigeons Rose from the Floor of the Earth; A Clamoring of Wings to Disturb the Silence Matthew Shenoda 2026
Half-light Dāshaun Washington 2025
the first rain Yun Qin Wang 2024
16 Bars Poetica Adrian Matejka 2025
From “De Jure Sanguinis” Kiki Petrosino 2025
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Christian Campbell 2025

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