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Title Author Year
Lament of a Man for His Son Anonymous 1925
Standup Sonnet Zeina Hashem Beck 2025
Cape Tenaron Katerina Iliopoulou 2025
A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem Rachel Dillon 2025
Fog Emma Lazarus 1889
Spring Rachel Kyung-Joo Shin 2025
If I Had a Million Samuel Alfred Beadle 1904
The Negro’s “America” Frank Barbour Coffin 1897
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024
It’s Not That I Can’t Have Children Kai Coggin 2024
Neon Shades of Youth Jean Prokott 2022
And You . . . Jason Allen-Paisant 2024
less hope Danez Smith 2022
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, XXIV Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer 1891
From “The World After Rain” Canisia Lubrin 2023
Moon Tonight Gwendolyn Bennett 1926
[When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild,] Wallada bint al-Mustakfi 1796
Solace Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
The Spring Has Many Silences Laura Riding Jackson 1925
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022

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