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Title Author Year
Self and Life George Eliot 1884
Comment Dorothy Parker 1926
Kumulipo Queen Liliʻuokalani 1897
Nothing Wants to Suffer Danusha Laméris 2021
Kal Fatimah Asghar 2018
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
Evening Star Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Wall Hanging I Never Noticed Dorothea Lasky 2014
the lost women Lucille Clifton 1989
Still, Days Grant Chemidlin 2026
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
There was earth inside them Paul Celan 2020
[I come weary,] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Never May the Fruit Be Picked Edna St. Vincent Millay 1923
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
Caesarion C. P. Cavafy 2008
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
The Names of Grasses Jacob Shores-Argüello 2026
America Is Loving Me to Death Michael Kleber-Diggs 2020

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