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The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780
Before you returned Kayte Young 2018
I Want to Save This Whale Lisa Olstein 2018
The Weight of Sweetness Li-Young Lee 2017
Long Night Full Moon D. A. Powell 2016
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens 1915
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake] Christina Rossetti 1881
Christmas at Sea Robert Louis Stevenson 1888
Advice to a Prophet Richard Wilbur 1961
Window Art Kwame Dawes 2026
there aren’t enough idioms about the stars Keith S. Wilson 2025
Revolution is the pod (33) Emily Dickinson 1929
[The will to see oneself as fragile] Tracy K. Smith 2023
Grass, 1967 Victoria Chang 2023
From “The Trees Witness Everything” Victoria Chang 2021
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
It Was the Animals Natalie Diaz 2020
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020
Essay on Reentry Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019

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