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Title Author Year
Window Spencer Reece 2026
Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm Wo Chan 2026
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838
Returning to Fields and Gardens (I) Tao Yuanming 2024
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
crown Danez Smith 2017
The Indian’s Awakening Zitkála-Šá 1916
Gitanjali 103 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Ghazal of Oranges Jan-Henry Gray 2022
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door Elisabet Velasquez 2021
A Winter Twilight Angelina Weld Grimké 1923
the independence (of puerto rico) Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 2020
XLV [Before the ice is in the pools] Emily Dickinson 1896
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter Mary Jean Chan 2019
Do Not Cheer, Men are Dying Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904
Notebook, 1981 Eileen Myles 2018
The Ring Andrew Motion 2018
Overnight John Yau 2018
Brooding Grief D. H. Lawrence 2017

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