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Title Author Year
Making a Fist Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
The Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 1986
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
Abstraction Anne Marie Rooney 2025
My Dead Friends Marie Howe 2022
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
The Wind and the Moon George Macdonald 1904
Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney 2006
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980
From “Will There Be Singing” Juliana Spahr 2020
Lyrics: II (17) José Garcia Villa 2019
Femme Futures Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 2019
Tear It Down Jack Gilbert 2001
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 2009
Spring Night Sara Teasdale 1915
Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home) Patrick Rosal 2024
Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
Woodchucks Maxine Kumin 1972

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