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London William Blake 1794
How to Triumph Like a Girl Ada Limón 2018
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
Calling Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1920
Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) John Donne 1633
Bildungssonnet Billy-Ray Belcourt 2026
Fire and Ice Robert Frost 1920
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter] William Shakespeare 2016
The Conditional Ada Limón 2013
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Sci-Fi Tracy K. Smith 2011
This Is a Photograph of Me Margaret Atwood 1998
To —— Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Sea Is History Derek Walcott 2007
The Layers Stanley Kunitz 1978
The Listeners Walter de la Mare 1912
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
blessing the boats Lucille Clifton 2001
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)] Adrienne Rich 2016

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