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Title Author Year
Cattails Nikky Finney 2011
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Green D. H. Lawrence 1917
the lost women Lucille Clifton 1989
Latin & Soul Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Stillbirth Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2007
Can You Feel the Native American in Me M. L. Smoker 2005
Song of Myself, 10 Walt Whitman 1891
Boaz Asleep Victor Hugo 2001
Star Quilt Roberta Hill Whiteman 1984
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16 Homer 1975
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
The Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 1927
Object Permanence Hala Alyan 2021
Free Labor Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1857
[A cloud of flowers!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Israfel Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The School of Night & Hyphens Chen Chen 2017
Hallowe'en John Kendrick Bangs 2017
Vivien’s Song Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2017

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