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Kennst du das Land


By Léonie Adams

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Lullaby


By Léonie Adams

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Many Mansions


By Léonie Adams

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Thought's End


By Léonie Adams

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Good Girl

By Kim Addonizio

Read by Sidonie McLaren

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Floral Birth '98

By Meriem Ahmed

Read by Kayssie K

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Why Can't I Leave You?

By Ai

Read by Eisa Davis

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Ars Poetica #100: I Believe


By Elizabeth Alexander

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Butter


By Elizabeth Alexander

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Lychees


By Meena Alexander

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Postcard from Kashmir


By Agha Shahid Ali

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The Season of the Plains


By Agha Shahid Ali

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Amá Teaches Me How to Whistle


By Moncho Ollin Alvarado

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I Want the Confidence of


By Raymond Antrobus

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To Sweeten Bitter

By Raymond Antrobus

Read by Shakeel Haakim

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Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris


By Raymond Antrobus

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Dover Beach


By Matthew Arnold

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Isolation: To Marguerite


By Matthew Arnold

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The Buried Life


By Matthew Arnold

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To Marguerite: Continued


By Matthew Arnold

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Superhero Origin Story [S. O. S.]


By Jubi Arriola-Headley

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Little Prayer


By Mona Arshi

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The Bird


By Mona Arshi

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The Lion

By Mona Arshi

Read by Tiffany Gray

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Writing Audio Description at the Ulster Museum


By Bebe Ashley

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The Illegitimate


By ATMOS Collective

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As I Walked Out One Evening

By W. H. Auden

Read by Peter Halstead

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from Academic Graffiti


By W. H. Auden

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Funeral Blues

By W. H. Auden

Read by Simon Callow

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In Memory of W. B. Yeats


By W. H. Auden

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Lullaby


By W. H. Auden

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O Tell Me the Truth About Love


By W. H. Auden

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September 1, 1939


By W. H. Auden

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Song of the Master and Boatswain


By W. H. Auden

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The Unknown Citizen

By W. H. Auden

Read by Bobby Hirston

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Who’s Who


By W. H. Auden

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Island


By Desiree C. Bailey

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Ma and the Snake


By Desiree C. Bailey

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Malady


By Desiree C. Bailey

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Life


By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

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