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Title Author Year
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1898
Diving into the Wreck Adrienne Rich 1973
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
A Small Needful Fact Ross Gay 2016
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires Forrest Gander 2020
The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1854
ER S/P GSW Paul Hlava Ceballos 2023
The Black Heralds César Vallejo 1918
Syrinx Spring Jennifer Scappettone 2023
The Dustbowl Kenward Elmslie 1971
To Military Progress Marianne Moore 1924
Letters Found Near a Suicide 1927
Ore Choir: The Priest Questions the Lava Katy Didden 2022
On Reading Allen Ginsberg’s “Homework” Andrea Carter Brown 2022
II Alone John Wieners 2015
His Eye on The Sparrow Airea D. Matthews 2022
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
The Lives of the Saints Julia B. Levine 2021
The Only Way to Fight the Plague is Decency Cyrus Cassells 2022
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 2009

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