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Title Author Year
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Christian Campbell 2025
Gitanjali 96 Rabindranath Tagore
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
The Death of the Old Year Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
Give-Away Song Gwen Westerman 2021
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
Skin Tight Ishmael Reed 2021
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
In Envy of Cows Joseph Auslander 1923
A Benign Self-Portrait N. Scott Momaday 2019
Aunt Chloe's Politics Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1891
At Night Stanley Plumly 2019
Kid, these are train tracks, Jeffrey Bean 2018
Insensibility Wilfred Owen 2018
A Dream Pang Robert Frost 2018

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