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Title Author Year
The Specific Ocean Jenny Browne 2026
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email Emily Jungmin Yoon 2026
On Growing Old John Masefield 1919
I begin the day thinking Taylor Byas 2025
Sent & scented with 10 emoticons Tan Lin 2024
Gitanjali 96 Rabindranath Tagore
Why I Needed To Richard Blanco 2023
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
He Had His Dream Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Lion Tina Chang 2022
This Morning Luci Tapahonso 2020
Do Not Cheer, Men are Dying Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
The House of Hospitalities Thomas Hardy 2018
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
Vivien’s Song Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2017
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë Charlotte Brontë 2016
Chess Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2015
Next Time Ask More Questions Naomi Shihab Nye 2015
from The Vision of Sir Launfal James Russell Lowell 1848
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons Christopher Kennedy 2011

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