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Black Girl Magic

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 140

By Mahogany L. Browne

If 2017 was a poem title

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 16

By Mahogany L. Browne

Advice from the Lights

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 129

By Stephanie Burt

First Astronomy Globe

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 139

By Stephanie Burt

Wildflower Meadow, Medawisla

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 149

By Stephanie Burt

Names

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 151

By Mary Jean Chan

Read by Sofia Oxenham

Kumukanda

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 163

By Kayo Chingonyi

Read by Paapa Essiedu

Kubla Khan

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 107

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some Rules

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 114

By Wendy Cope

Read by Catherine Dryden

Postlude for Four Hands at the Great Organ

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 159

By Maryann Corbett

State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 44

By Maryann Corbett

I Have a Rendezvous with Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 103

By Countee Cullen

To the Swimmer

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 98

By Countee Cullen

Cities

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 35

By H.D.

Hermes of the Ways

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 183

By H.D.

Sheltered Garden

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 124

By H.D.

The Shrine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 186

By H.D.

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

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 169

By Natalie Diaz

Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 179

By Natalie Diaz

Manhattan is a Lenape Word

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 189

By Natalie Diaz

A Bird came down the Walk

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 199

By Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 04

By Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 45

By Emily Dickinson

Before I got my eye put out

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 55

By Emily Dickinson

Denial—is the only fact

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 142

By Emily Dickinson

Good Morning — Midnight

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 126

By Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 99

By Emily Dickinson

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 164

By Emily Dickinson

I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 36

By Emily Dickinson

I started Early—Took my Dog—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 44

By Emily Dickinson

In this short Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 73

By Emily Dickinson

It was not Death, for I stood up

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 121

By Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is divinest Sense

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 137

By Emily Dickinson

Of Bronze—and Blaze—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 58

By Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 54

By Emily Dickinson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 27

By Emily Dickinson

The Heart asks Pleasure first

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 13

By Emily Dickinson

There’s a certain Slant of light

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 96

By Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the World

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 34

By Emily Dickinson

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