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Syllogisms

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By Charles Baudelaire

Fantasy

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By Gwendolyn Bennett

Nocturne

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By Gwendolyn Bennett

10 Things I Want To Say to a Black Woman

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By Joshua Bennett

Owed to the Durag

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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

Auguries of Innocence

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By William Blake

The Sick Rose

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By William Blake

To Autumn

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By William Blake

Cityscape

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By Eavan Boland

How We Were Transfigured

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By Eavan Boland

That the Science of Cartography Is Limited

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By Eavan Boland

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

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By Eavan Boland

Water Birth

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By Rachel Bower

Contemplations

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By Anne Bradstreet

The Author to Her Book

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By Anne Bradstreet

The Flesh and the Spirit

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By Anne Bradstreet

It’s a Long Way

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By William Stanley Braithwaite

Sic Vita

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By William Stanley Braithwaite

Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves

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By William Stanley Braithwaite

If You Knew

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By Ruth Muskrat Bronson

Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)

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By Ruth Muskrat Bronson

Bullet Points

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By Jericho Brown

Crossing

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By Jericho Brown

Duplex (A poem is a gesture toward home)

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By Jericho Brown

Stake

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By Jericho Brown

The Tradition

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By Jericho Brown

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

Advice from the Lights

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By Stephanie Burt

First Astronomy Globe

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By Stephanie Burt

Wildflower Meadow, Medawisla

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By Stephanie Burt

Here we are, aging together, just like we said we would

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By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

One Geography of Belonging

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By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Water we won't touch

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By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

We remain foolishly hopeful (or, obituary for the top soil)

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By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Kissing Distance

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By Anthony Vahni Capildeo
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