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Gitanjali 6 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
An Act of Love Tommye Blount 2023
Fracture Ellen Bass 2022
Of a Certain Friendship Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon Patricia Smith 2022
8. bell hooks 2012
Jaguar Song Arthur Sze 2021
Refuge Jackie Wang 2021
Like a Strong Tree Claude McKay 1925
That is solemn we have ended,— (87) Emily Dickinson 2020
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904
In Brazil Tracy K. Smith 2018
A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald Sonia Sanchez 2018
The Haunted Palace Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Painted Ceiling Amy Lowell 2018
The Bombing of Baghdad June Jordan 2017
Sketch Carl Sandburg 1916
Field Guide to the Chaparral Leah Naomi Green 2017
Sorcery Sandra Simonds 2016
Birthday Richie Hofmann 2015

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