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Title Author Year
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
sisters Lucille Clifton 1989
The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
Guided Meditation Victoria Kornick 2026
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Sleepers Walt Whitman 1891
Al Aaraaf Edgar Allan Poe
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
The Things that Count Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1919
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
These Poems June Jordan 1977
A Woman Is Talking to Death Judy Grahn 2016
At the Touch of You Witter Bynner 2014
Butter Elizabeth Alexander 2017

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