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Digging


By Seamus Heaney

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How To Triumph Like a Girl


By Ada Limón

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I Have a Rendezvous with Life


By Countee Cullen

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Six O’Clock News


By Tom Leonard

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Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real?


By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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O Tell Me the Truth About Love


By W. H. Auden

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Nightgown


By James Merrill

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Oklahoma Home


By Elise Paschen

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Dangerous Things


By Tiphanie Yanique

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Songs for the People


By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

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