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Floral Birth '98

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By Meriem Ahmed

Why Can't I Leave You?

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By Ai

Amá Teaches Me How to Whistle

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By Moncho Ollin Alvarado

The Lion

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By Mona Arshi

The Illegitimate

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By ATMOS Collective

As I Walked Out One Evening

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By W. H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen

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By W. H. Auden

Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid

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By Catherine Barnett

In which I hypnotise a tiger

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By Khairani Barokka

10 Things I Want To Say to a Black Woman

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By Joshua Bennett

The Republic of Motherhood

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By Liz Berry

Dive Bar

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By Caroline Bird

One Art

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By Elizabeth Bishop

Wellspring: Words from Water

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By Kimberly M. Blaeser

A Poison Tree

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By William Blake

Edge of Water, Moiese, Montana

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By Brian Blanchfield

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

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By Eavan Boland

Water Birth

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By Rachel Bower

Black Girl Magic

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By Mahogany L. Browne

If 2017 was a poem title

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By Mahogany L. Browne

Canción de las Mujeres: Some Uses for the Moon

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By Rafael Campo

Kissing Distance

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By Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Names

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By Mary Jean Chan

Blues for Albert ‘Prodigy’ Johnson & Carl ‘Haystee’ Samuel

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By Kayo Chingonyi

Kumukanda

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By Kayo Chingonyi

Cherishing for Beginners

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By Sarah Clancy

The Echo at Coole

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By Austin Clarke

Turning

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By Lucille Clifton

GOLDEN IN THE MORNING CRANE OUR NECKS

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By CAConrad

Some Rules

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By Wendy Cope

Emergency Warning

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By Yrsa Daley-Ward

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

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By Emily Dickinson

A Hymn to God the Father

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By John Donne

Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest's Parlour

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By Paul Durcan

The Racist Bone

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By Cornelius Eady

Our Hands Like Rain

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By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

Women and Other Flowers

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By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

I want to be like Frank O'Hara

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By Martina Evans

What Heaney Said

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By FeliSpeaks

Poem to be read at the end of a year

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By Bernard Ferguson
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