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Title Author Year
I like to see it lap the Miles (43) Emily Dickinson 1890
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
Corinna's Going a-Maying Robert Herrick 1648
Assault Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
Super Samson Simpson Jack Prelutsky 1990
Someone Dennis O’Driscoll 2005
Carrowmore Lucie Brock-Broido 1997
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
ghost ranch Kristin Lueke 2026
Nothing Promised Avia Tadmor 2025
Anthem for America Varsha Saraiya-Shah 2025
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
The Wall Donald Justice 2004
Gitanjali 60 Rabindranath Tagore 1912
Indian Summer Dorothy Parker 1926
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Speaking of the future, Hamlet Mary Jo Bang 2020
Hybrida: A Zuihitsu Tina Chang 2019

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