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Title Author Year
Suddenly Sharon Olds 2013
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
The Great Figure William Carlos Williams 1962
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Untitled Nasser Rabah 2025
Gitanjali 34 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2022
Dawn Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
General Review of the Sex Situation Dorothy Parker 1926
May-Day Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54) William Shakespeare 1904
The Hill Rupert Brooke 2018
Before you returned Kayte Young 2018
The Sleeper Edgar Allan Poe 2018
If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is Patrick Rosal 2018
Citizenship Javier Zamora 2018
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017
Seven Stones Marjorie Agosín 2016
Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick Derrick Austin 2015

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