Poems

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Title	Author	Year
To make a prairie (1755)	Emily Dickinson	1951
The Creation	James Weldon Johnson	1927
Remember	Joy Harjo	1983
so you want to be a writer?	Charles Bukowski	2003
The Index	Rena Priest	2020
Matrilineage [umbilicus]	Sarah Ghazal Ali	2023
from “n e a r”	Genji Amino	2023
Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, VII	Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer	1891
The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third	Mark Akenside	1744
Gitanjali 78	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Alchemy Horse	Natalie Diaz	2023
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, XVIII	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, XIV	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, LII	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, XI	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, X	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, IX	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, VIII	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
The Luzumiyat of Abu'l-Ala, LXXIV	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
Note to Self Work	Beau Sia	2020

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1951