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Title Author Year
A Song for Many Movements Audre Lorde 1978
cutting greens Lucille Clifton 1974
Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too? Langston Hughes 1994
Autumn Leaves Margaret Daramola 2021
Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo 2023
Fardi Wa Nafli Ameen Rihani 1905
Song of Myself, 7 Walt Whitman 1891
Waiting—Afield at Dusk Robert Frost 2018
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
The Angel that presided o’er my birth William Blake 1908
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
American Sonnet for the New Year Terrance Hayes 2022
The Choice Dorothy Parker 1926
To Winter Claude McKay 1922
Paper Cuts Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2019
Lost Dog Ellen Bass 2018
A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald Sonia Sanchez 2018
from Song of Myself XXIV

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