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Title Author Year
Bluebeard Safiya Sinclair 2026
sisters Lucille Clifton 1989
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo 2016
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667
Wanting to Die Anne Sexton 1981
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
The Sleepers Walt Whitman 1891
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
How I Got that Name Marilyn Chin 1994
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
Peaches Adrienne Su 2015
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
The Coming of Light Mark Strand 2002
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
Corona Paul Celan 2020
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) Craig Santos Perez 2017
Spellbound Emily Brontë 1837
Approach of Winter William Carlos Williams 1921

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