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Title Author Year
Divergence Diana Khoi Nguyen 2019
Black Snow [I came home] Carl Adamshick 2019
No, Kanye, it’s not LIKE we’re mentally in prison Erica Dawson 2019
Song of the Open Road, 11 Walt Whitman 1891
Songs (IV) E. E. Cummings 1925
My Great-Grandmother’s Egg Thief Roy G. Guzmán 2019
Vestigial Bones Rajiv Mohabir 2019
Childhood William Archila 2018
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all (Sonnet 117) William Shakespeare 1904
When thou shalt be disposed to set me light (Sonnet, 88) William Shakespeare 1904
O, how I faint when I of you do write (Sonnet 80) William Shakespeare 1904
O, lest the world should task you to recite (Sonnet 72) William Shakespeare 1904
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (Sonnet 4) William Shakespeare 1904
To My Ward-Sister Vera Brittain 2018
Aging Rosmarie Waldrop 2018
In the Gold Room Oscar Wilde 2018
Wolf’s Trees J. D. McClatchy 2018
Forgiveness Christopher Soto 2018
XXI [There was, before me] Stephen Crane 1905
The Silver Thread Afaa Michael Weaver 2017

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