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Title Author Year
Glow Brian Komei Dempster 2026
Poem for Haruko June Jordan 2017
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
Ode to Fat Ellen Bass 2020
The Miscarriage Dorothea Lasky 2017
The Sick Rose William Blake 1794
Sunday Morning Wallace Stevens 1923
Ars Poetica Archibald MacLeish 1926
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves” William Wordsworth 1804
Conversation in Isolation Harryette Mullen 2021
Ode to the Head Nod Elizabeth Acevedo 2020
Relax Ellen Bass 2014
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
Lyrics: II (17) José Garcia Villa 2019
Parent's Pantoum Carolyn Kizer 1996
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 2009
This Compost Walt Whitman 1856
Corona Paul Celan 2020

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