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Title Author Year
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art Frank O’Hara 1957
I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money Tongo Eisen-Martin 2020
On Clothes Kahlil Gibran 1923
Autobiography of Eve Ansel Elkins 2015
Gerontion T. S. Eliot 1920
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
Odysseus to Telemachus Joseph Brodsky 1980
Sometimes with One I Love Walt Whitman 2013
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Eulogy Kevin Young 2011
Tell Me Something Good Ocean Vuong 2015
from Oracles for Youth Caroline Gilman 1852
I Want to Die While You Love Me Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
The Kiss Stephen Dunn 2007
My Friend Tree Lorine Niedecker 1985
i take my glasses off Lucille Clifton 2026
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Your laughter turns the world to paradise Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women Alice Duer Miller 1915
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight Jane Hirshfield 1997

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