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Title Author Year
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
The Excursion Tu Fu 1921
Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from / how did you arrive? Remica Bingham-Risher 2019
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Sonnet 43) William Shakespeare 1904
I Sing the Body Electric Walt Whitman 1891
These Poems June Jordan 1977
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817
The Pasture Robert Frost 1915
Spellbound Emily Brontë 1837
summer, somewhere Danez Smith 2016
Trees at Night Helene Johnson 1925
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
The Traveling Onion Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
the earth is a living thing Lucille Clifton 1991
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848
Black Cat Rainer Maria Rilke 2014
The Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 1986
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026

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