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State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 44

By Maryann Corbett

Questions for My Body

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 231

By Eduardo C. Corral

Saguaro

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 232

By Eduardo C. Corral

Song of the Open Road

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 234

By Eduardo C. Corral

The Poplar Field

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 303

By William Cowper

Heritage

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 267

By Countee Cullen

I Have a Rendezvous with Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 103

By Countee Cullen

Threnody for a Brown Girl

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 304

By Countee Cullen

To the Swimmer

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 98

By Countee Cullen

Two Thoughts of Death

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 305

By Countee Cullen

Yet Do I Marvel

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 226

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.

Emergency Warning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Yrsa Daley-Ward

Read by Jessica Revell

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

Bloom — is Result — to meet a Flower

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 212

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

It’s all I have to bring today

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 214

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 Grass so little has to do

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 215

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

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