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Title Author Year
Couture Mark Doty 1995
Darwin’s Finches Deborah Digges 1986
String Theory Sutra Brenda Hillman 2005
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
27,000 Miles Albert Goldbarth 2007
A Nest Full of Stars James Berry 2004
Wrap Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2003
Iva's Pantoum Marilyn Hacker 1969
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
Amo Amas Amat Bernardine Evaristo 2001
Heroic Simile Robert Hass 1978
Pledge Elizabeth A. I. Powell 2001
Dark Sunday Grant Chemidlin 2026
a graphic Ed Roberson 2026
Lodestone Annie Wenstrup 2025
You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See Jari Bradley 2025
Gardener’s Perception Yannis Ritsos 2025
Love Poem with Staples Laura Read 2025
The Story as I Understand It Leonora Speyer 1926
Time Mae Cowdery 1927

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