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Imaginary Exile

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By Richard Blanco

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

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

Names

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By Mary Jean Chan

Kumukanda

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By Kayo Chingonyi

Kubla Khan

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By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some Rules

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By Wendy Cope

Postlude for Four Hands at the Great Organ

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By Maryann Corbett

State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day

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By Maryann Corbett

Heritage

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By Countee Cullen

I Have a Rendezvous with Life

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By Countee Cullen

To the Swimmer

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By Countee Cullen

Yet Do I Marvel

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By Countee Cullen

Cities

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By H.D.

Hermes of the Ways

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By H.D.

Sheltered Garden

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By H.D.

The Shrine

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By H.D.

Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation

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By Natalie Diaz

Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera

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By Natalie Diaz

Manhattan is a Lenape Word

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By Natalie Diaz

A Bird came down the Walk

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By Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

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By Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death

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By Emily Dickinson

Before I got my eye put out

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By Emily Dickinson

Denial—is the only fact

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By Emily Dickinson
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