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Title Author Year
Speculations About "I" (audio only) Toi Derricotte 2016
To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
In Two Seconds Mark Doty 2016
Patriot Preacher: Rev. Stephen Johnson, Minister, First Congregational Church, Lime, Connecticut, 1766 (audio only) Marilyn Nelson 2016
The Meeting House: Lyme, Connecticut, 1666 (audio only) Marilyn Nelson 2016
Font Linda Gregerson 2016
Revisiting Hekale Khaled Mattawa 2016
The Woman, The Tiger Jane Hirshfield 2015
Zero Plus Anything Is a World Jane Hirshfield 2015
One Week Later in the Strange Elizabeth Alexander 2016
Autumn Passage Elizabeth Alexander 2016
Dirge South Anne Waldman 2016
Obscurity and the Amateur (audio only) C. D. Wright 2016
From the Peninsula Ishion Hutchinson 2016
Their Secret Was
Mind-Body Problem Wayne Miller 2016
You Can't Build a Child Sandra Simonds 2012
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012
My Mother's Name Lucha Juan Felipe Herrera 2012
My Father’s Breed Valzhyna Mort 2012

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