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Title Author Year
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) Emily Dickinson 1890
Lucky Tony Hoagland 1998
The Tropics of New York Claude McKay 1920
History Carol Ann Duffy 2003
Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child Lewis Carroll 1865
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
The Weight of Love Pat Schneider 2019
Elastic Love Contrapuntal Sarah Cooper 2023
Wonder Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
Long, Too Long America Walt Whitman
Holdfast Robin Beth Schaer 2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 20 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991

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