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Title Author Year
Resignation Nikki Giovanni 2016
To My Dear and Loving Husband Anne Bradstreet 1678
A Decade Amy Lowell 1921
A Prayer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
The Lonely Sleep Through Winter Kemi Alabi 2021
Evening Song Willa Cather 1903
American Smooth Rita Dove 2006
My husband who is not my husband Ed Madden 2014
Soft Volcano Libby Burton 2019
Stray Elizabeth Alexander 2018
dwelling Nicole Callihan 2018
Epithalamion Fady Joudah 2018
I Loved You Before I Was Born Li-Young Lee 2018
In Each Look Our Years Edwin Torres 2017
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love June Jordan 2017
To My Wife Alexander Posey 2017
Late Bloomer Michele Wolf 2017
The City is Peopled H.D. 2017
Voyage Mark Irwin 2017
Galaxy Love Gerald Stern 2017

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