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Title Author Year
Tender Buttons [A Chair] Gertrude Stein 1914
Why should a foolish marriage vow John Dryden 1913
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You Abdellatif Laâbi 2003
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
Those Graves in Rome Larry Levis 1985
I Might Have Dreamed This Kirsten Dierking 2001
Tract William Carlos Williams 1962
[In my eyes he matches the gods] Sappho 2007
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1896
A Divine Image William Blake 1794
The Great Migration Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
While I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who Love Me Charif Shanahan 2023
Morning in the Burbs Marcus Wicker 2017
Past Light Pimone Triplett 2005
Ode on a Line by Marie Howe Michelle Bitting 2026
Deportation Brenda Cárdenas 2025
​​In Memoriam [±That after all this I have still chosen life.] Jimin Seo 2026
New Tradition/新传统 Evan Wang 2026
Our Book of Delights Arielle Hebert 2026
The Artist Orpheus Donald Justice 1995

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