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Title Author Year
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007
I HEART My Cat Still Life Alexandria Peary 2022
Hills of Bureaucracy Alexandria Peary 2022
[The city breaks in houses to the sea, uneasy with waves,] Charles Reznikoff 1920
An Easy-Goin’ Feller Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Heedless Shepherd Monica McClure 2022
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
Changing Is Not Vanishing Carlos Montezuma 1916
The White-headed Woodpecker Sean Hill 2021
On Working Remotely & No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain Camisha L. Jones 2021
NN3 Victoria Guerrero 2021
French Leave Claude McKay 1922
The Office Building Helen Hoyt 1918
work: an ode for the human micropoem* Jennifer Karmin 2021
For Joseph Conrad Countee Cullen 1925
The Call to Duty George Reginald Margetson 1910
the shoes Wo Chan 2021
A Common Plaint Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1900
After Graduate School Valencia Robin 2021
Atlantic City Waiter Countee Cullen 1925

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