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Title Author Year
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker John Olivares Espinoza 2017
Call of the Night Djuna Barnes 2016
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Lamia [Left to herself] John Keats 1820
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
Happiness Jane Kenyon 2001
Harriet Tubman Eloise Greenfield 2003
Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore 1961
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
Railroad Avenue Langston Hughes 1926
Mexican Heaven José Olivarez 2023
“Uvalde Shooting Highlights Role of Doors in Security Plans” Deborah Paredez 2022
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
Suicide’s Note Langston Hughes 1926
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Twerk Villanelle Porsha Olayiwola 2019
The Onset Robert Frost 1923
The Dry Tortugas Molly Fisk 2019

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