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Title Author Year
A Winter Blue Jay Sara Teasdale 2014
Cotton Candy Edward Hirsch 2010
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
To Dorothy Marvin Bell 2000
Harriet Tubman Eloise Greenfield 2003
Segesta Edith Wharton 1926
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Silhouette Janice Lobo Sapigao 2020
On Pleasure Kahlil Gibran 1923
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Senior Discount Ali Liebegott 2016
Sounds of the Winter Walt Whitman 2015
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991
The Sound of the Trees Robert Frost 1916
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] Eliza Lee Follen 1832
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990

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