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Title Author Year
In the Waiting Room Elizabeth Bishop 1979
so you want to be a writer? Charles Bukowski 2003
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1847
Dear Kasama Jason Magabo Perez 2023
Breeding at the End of the World Gloria Muñoz 2021
Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush Hai-Dang Phan 2023
Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention Susan Landers 2023
Instructions Before Stuttering JJJJJerome Ellis 2023
Gitanjali 14 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 13 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Coda: Refuge Amanda Gunn 2023
To a Daisy Alice Meynell 1875
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007
You Can’t Maya Abu Al-Hayyat 2022
Keep A-Pluggin' Away Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Monotony Langston Hughes 1923
Everything is Different Paul Celan 2020
To a No. 2 Yellow Pencil on May 1, 2020 Kimiko Hahn 2020
attention as a form of ethics [excerpt] Asiya Wadud 2020
Sundays Sarah Gambito 2019

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