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Title Author Year
Escape Georgia Douglas Johnson 1925
Skin Tight Ishmael Reed 2021
Love in Outer Space Alison C. Rollins 2021
How Heid E. Erdrich 2018
A Dedication Lucian B. Watkins 1903
A Mother to the War-Makers Margaret Widdemer 1915
What’s Left Behind After a Hawk Has Seized a Smaller Bird Midair Justin Phillip Reed 2020
Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d” Kimiko Hahn 2019
My Prayer Henry David Thoreau 1895
Paper Cuts Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2019
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered] Diane Seuss 2019
O’ Noblesse O’ Nikky Finney 2019
A Reading from the Book of Exile Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Songs (IV) E. E. Cummings 1923
O, how I faint when I of you do write (Sonnet 80) William Shakespeare 1904
So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnet 21) William Shakespeare 1904
Doing Rosmarie Waldrop 2016
Alive Winifred M. Letts 2018
Trench Duty Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Advice to a Young Poet Kendel Hippolyte 2018

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