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Title Author Year
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
Self-Portrait as a Body, a Sea Donika Kelly 2017
Howl Eileen Myles 2020
The Haunted Oak Paul Laurence Dunbar
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90) William Shakespeare 1904
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909
The Peacemaker Joyce Kilmer 2018
Bonfire Opera Danusha Laméris 2016
It Is Important To Be Something Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2018
Weeds Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Tuesday 9/11/01 Lucille Clifton 2017
Music from Childhood John Yau 2016
litany Mahogany L. Browne 2016
I Know You Think I've Forgotten Jane Hirshfield 2015
Gabriel Adrienne Rich 2016
The Jungle Megan Fernandes 2015
Spent Mark Doty 2013
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600
To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore 1921
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991

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