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Title Author Year
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 1903
A Way to Love God Robert Penn Warren 1985
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With Suzanne Rancourt 2004
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
A Farewell to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
Le Jardin des Tuileries Oscar Wilde 1885
Conflation Matthew Gellman 2025
Anthem for America Varsha Saraiya-Shah 2025
Why Wake up Happy Quincy Scott Jones 2024
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
Object Permanence Hala Alyan 2021
Essay on Reentry Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
Song of Myself, 25 Walt Whitman 1891
Ghazal Tracy K. Smith 2018
If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is Patrick Rosal 2018
Reading to My Father Jorie Graham 2016
What Changes Naomi Shihab Nye 2015
I Do Sjohnna McCray 2015
Dear J. Kazim Ali 2013
Magnolia Gerald Stern 2011

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