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Paean

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By Otto Leland Bohanan

The dawn's awake

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By Otto Leland Bohanan

Villanelle

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By Otto Leland Bohanan

Cityscape

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By Eavan Boland

How we were transfigured

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By Eavan Boland

That the science of cartography is limited

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By Eavan Boland

The lost art of letter writing

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By Eavan Boland

Water birth

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By Rachel Bower

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

From imperio de los sueños / empire of dreams

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By Giannina Braschi

If you knew

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By Ruth Muskrat Bronson

Sonnets from the cherokee (i)

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By Ruth Muskrat Bronson

First fight. then fiddle.

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By Gwendolyn Brooks

The bean eaters

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By Gwendolyn Brooks

The rites for cousin vit

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By Gwendolyn Brooks

The second sermon on the warpland

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By Gwendolyn Brooks

The sonnet-ballad

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By Gwendolyn Brooks

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

When all this is over

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By Siobhán Campbell

Canción de las mujeres: some uses for the moon

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By Rafael Campo

Here we are, aging together, just like we said we would

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By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

One geography of belonging

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By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Water we won't touch

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By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

We remain foolishly hopeful (or, obituary for the top soil)

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By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Kissing distance

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By Anthony Vahni Capildeo

All in the golden afternoon

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By Lewis Carroll
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