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Title Author Year
On a Line from Valery (The Gulf War) Carolyn Kizer 1996
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557
Conflation Matthew Gellman 2025
Rest Stop Chandler Peters-Durose 2024
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals Catherine Pierce 2020
Men Dorothy Parker 1926
The Road at My Door W. B. Yeats 1970
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Song of Myself, 15 Walt Whitman 1891
And Now Upon My Head the Crown Phillip B. Williams 2018
If You’re Staying, I’ll Stay Too Meg Day 2017
July Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017
When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
Galway Races W. B. Yeats 2016
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last Lisa Olstein 2016
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata Natasha Trethewey 2012
Sundown Jorie Graham 2011
To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore 1921
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987

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