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Title Author Year
[Like the very gods] Sappho 1949
[The rage that shatters a man into children,] César Vallejo 2026
For a Birthday Sophie Jewett 1910
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
Rain Music Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
Rain William Saphier 1920
the independence (of puerto rico) Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 2020
American Smooth Rita Dove 2006
River to River Hai-Dang Phan 2019
Trench Duty Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Bonfire Opera Danusha Laméris 2016
The War in Colors Dunya Mikhail 2017
My Mama moved among the days Lucille Clifton 2017
Clue Nicole Sealey 2017
Astronomers Locate a New Planet Matthew Olzmann 2016
Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick Derrick Austin 2015
Someday I'll Love Roger Reeves (audio only) Roger Reeves 2013
Black Rhinoceros Edward Hirsch 2014
Winter: My Secret Christina Rossetti 1862
Moonlight Sara Teasdale 1920

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