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Title Author Year
The Art of Shooting in the Dark Denice Frohman 2022
Island Langston Hughes 1995
In the Beginning Donika Kelly 2021
Natural History Sam Hamill 2018
The Apparition John Donne 1633
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
The Tropics of New York Claude McKay 1920
Sport Langston Hughes 1927
Mexican Heaven José Olivarez 2023
The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1842
Dandelions Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
Applesauce Ted Kooser 2017
[Here dead lie we because we did not choose] A. E. Housman 2017
The World Christina Rossetti 2017
The Buttonhook Mary Jo Salter 2014
A List of Praises Anne Porter 2006
The Death of the Hired Man Robert Frost 2018
Question May Swenson 1978
How to Continue Loving the World Despite Years of Impediment Marcus Wicker 2026

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