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Title Author Year
Grace for a Child Robert Herrick 1648
Of Many Worlds in this World Margaret Cavendish 1653
Life in a Love Robert Browning 1855
The Tropics of New York Claude McKay 1920
An Evening Discussion Chen Chen 2026
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
Wonder Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
Summer Stars Carl Sandburg 1920
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
From “The Trees Witness Everything” Victoria Chang 2021
Let There Be Manny Loley 2021
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
The Dry Tortugas Molly Fisk 2019
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
Four Sonnets About Food Adrienne Su 2017
Hermes of the Ways H.D. 2016
From “Pinplay” Anne Carson 2016

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