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Title Author Year
Lightning Witter Bynner 1920
The Rainbow Effie Waller Smith 1909
What’s Left Behind After a Hawk Has Seized a Smaller Bird Midair Justin Phillip Reed 2020
November 2: Día de los muertos Alberto Ríos 2019
Tomato Pies, 25 Cents Grace Cavalieri 2019
Pentecostal D. H. Lawrence 1919
Blood History Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
The Armies of the Wilderness Herman Melville 1864
When Bad Things Happen to Good People Lynn Melnick 2019
The Creative Drive Catherine Barnett 2019
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1903
Expressing My Feelings to My Future Husband-Wife (Or, Ritual in Which Gender) Kayleb Rae Candrilli 2019
But wherefore do not you a mightier way (Sonnet 16) William Shakespeare 1904
A Working Party Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Ars Poetica #1,002: Rally Elizabeth Alexander 2018
Smile, Smile, Smile Wilfred Owen 2018
From “Introductions” Chelsey Minnis 2018
In Neglect Robert Frost 2018
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,] Gerard Manley Hopkins 2018
The Housekeeper Robert Frost 2018

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