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Title Author Year
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
15¢ Futures Marilyn Nelson 2015
Marriage William Carlos Williams 1916
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
The Forms of Love George Oppen 1975
Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick 1648
My Wife Robert Louis Stevenson 1896
The Mystic's Christmas John Greenleaf Whittier 1882
Can You Feel the Native American in Me M. L. Smoker 2005
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923
The Oxen Thomas Hardy 1915
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 1895
Song of the Open Road, 5 Walt Whitman 1891
Deleting Names (A Decaying Sestina) Lawrence Schimel 2018
December 24th Rose Styron 2018
Adolescence Claude McKay 2017
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015

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