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The Heart of a Woman

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 127

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Lifting of the Mist

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 29

By E. Pauline Johnson

Extraction

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 160

By Allison Joseph

Notebooks

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 126

By Allison Joseph

Why I Can’t Swim

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 158

By Allison Joseph

Charcoal Iron

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 142

By Nithy Kasa

Lucozade

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 141

By Jackie Kay

Bright Star

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 124

By John Keats

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 147

By John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 155

By John Keats

To Autumn

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 50

By John Keats

Small Kindnesses

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 60

By Danusha Laméris

Read by Fathima Zahra

Heart

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 199

By Dorianne Laux

Life Is Beautiful

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 131

By Dorianne Laux

Six O’Clock News

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 97

By Tom Leonard

How To Triumph Like a Girl

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 73

By Ada Limón

I Remember the Carrots

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 41

By Ada Limón

Hospital Through a Teleidoscope

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By Celeste Lipkes

ode to edge control gel

By Theresa Lola

Chick

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 79

By Hannah Lowe

Paper, Scissors, Stone

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 131

By Hannah Lowe

Read by Hannah Lowe

Reggae Story

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 206

By Hannah Lowe

Yellow River, Milk River

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 22

By Hannah Lowe

Dreams in War Time

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 159

By Amy Lowell

Madonna of the Evening Flowers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 74

By Amy Lowell

The Weather-Cock Points South

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 58

By Amy Lowell

An Eternity

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 166

By Archibald MacLeish

Calypso's Island

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 39

By Archibald MacLeish

The Old Man to the Lizard

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 106

By Archibald MacLeish

The Rape of the Swan

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 51

By Archibald MacLeish

The Two Priests

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 66

By Archibald MacLeish

They Come No More, Those Words, Those Finches

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 84

By Archibald MacLeish

Thunderhead

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 33

By Archibald MacLeish

What Any Lover Learns

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 49

By Archibald MacLeish

Harlem Shadows

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 34

By Claude McKay

The Tropics in New York

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By Claude McKay

A Gift

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 167

By Andrew McMillan

Nightgown

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 30

By James Merrill

First Fig

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 129

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Four Sonnets

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 57

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

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