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Title Author Year
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are (Sonnet 13) William Shakespeare 1904
Impressions Oscar Wilde 2018
My Father as Cartographer Natasha Trethewey 2018
As due by many titles I resign (Holy Sonnet II) John Donne 2018
say it with your whole black mouth Danez Smith 2018
Jolly Jack William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Fatigue Amy Lowell 2018
Faggot Poetics Cameron Awkward-Rich 2018
Paris Willa Cather 1903
Eurydice Willa Cather 1903
Wristwatch Ron Padgett 2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
The Captive Dove Anne Brontë 2017
Irony Layli Long Soldier 2016
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
Calculations Brenda Cárdenas 2016
Fiddleheads Maureen Seaton 2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening] Claudia Rankine 2014
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013

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