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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

That's my heart right there

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By Willie Perdomo

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

Saturday night blues

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By Brontez Purnell

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

Gift

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By Patrick Rosal

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

The burdens

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By Stephen Sexton

From richard iii

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By William Shakespeare

Sonnet 60

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By William Shakespeare

The sky

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By Natalie Shapero

American inferno

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By Evie Shockley

From the confinement

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By Evgeny Shtorn

Drunktown

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By Jake Skeets

King the color of space/tower of molasses & marrow

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By Danez Smith

An ode to tony macmahon's den

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By Stephen James Smith
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