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Title Author Year
Dear Lonely Animal, Oni Buchanan 2008
Why Regret? Galway Kinnell 2006
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
Milton [Excerpt] William Blake 1811
The Ruined Maid Thomas Hardy 1901
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio Carl Sandburg 1922
In the Land of Words Eloise Greenfield 2004
Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day Cynthia Zarin 2002
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Twilight: After Haying Jane Kenyon 1996
Canto I Ezra Pound 1956
A Terre Wilfred Owen 2018
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
To My Daughter’s Dead Name Lance Larsen 2025
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
The Home of the Sacred Ofelia Zepeda 2024
Parable Nickole Brown 2024
The Specious Present Catherine Barnett 2023
Cold War Randall Mann 2023
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, XXIV Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1891

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