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A Quartet for Lysaght

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By Niall McDevitt

The Tower of Babylon

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By Niall McDevitt

The Everglades

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By Campbell McGrath

A Gift

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By Andrew McMillan

At the Sign of the White Horse

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By Paula Meehan

This is not a confessional poem

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By Paula Meehan

Ghazal for the Diaspora

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By Faisal Mohyuddin

Fabric Hands

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By Ellen Moran

& Forgive Us Our Trespasses

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By Sinéad Morrissey

Genetics

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By Sinéad Morrissey

Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop

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By John Murillo

Belfast Pastoral

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By Emma Must

You City, You Boyfriend

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By Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan

The Architectural Metaphor

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By Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Caitlín (Cathleen)

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By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

He's Just Not That Into You

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By Ciara Ní É

Run (it’s dark outside)

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By Ciara Ní É

Brightening

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By Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Half Written Love Letter

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By Selina Nwulu

My Son the Man

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By Sharon Olds

River Stars from a Grotto

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By Abby Oliveira

The Sharp-Breasted Snake

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By Louis Little Coon Oliver

I Worried

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By Mary Oliver

What If the Sound of the Humpback Whale Lived in My Mouth?

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By Yaddyra Peralta

Blizzard

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By Carl Phillips

Corral

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By Carl Phillips

Epitaph for Fire and Flower

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By Sylvia Plath

Justice, Come Down

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By Minnie Bruce Pratt

It Would Sound Like a Dream

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By Camille Rankine

A Pumpkin

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By Padraig Regan

Frederick Douglass Aboard a Sonnet of the Atlantic

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By Kimberly Reyes

Stain in Creases

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By Kimberly Reyes

The City Kids See the Sea

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By Roger Robinson

Arrancaba las flores y se las comía / Tearing Out and Eating Flowers

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By Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

Monk Style

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By Kay Ryan

Malecón/Miami

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By Leslie Sainz

Hydrogen

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By Sarah M. Sala

Shimmer

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By James Schuyler

Even the Gods

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By Nicole Sealey

Segue

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By Stephen Sexton
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