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Title Author Year
Erasers Meghan O’Rourke 2026
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
As if some little Arctic flower Emily Dickinson 1890
The Cloisters Jorge Luis Borges 1999
Hard Daddy Langston Hughes 1922
A Drowsy Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
Cenzontle Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 2018
The Spanish Needle Claude McKay 1922
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
Militants to Certain Other Women Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
The Kitchen Chimney Robert Frost 1923
An Apology Julia Ward Howe 1854
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (Sonnet 2) William Shakespeare 1904
Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg 2018
Another Day Craig Morgan Teicher 2018
Untitled [Lord,] James Baldwin 2018
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
Oriflamme Jessie Redmon Fauset 1920

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