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Title Author Year
Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About Judith Viorst 1981
I Have to Write the Book You’ll Burn Vievee Francis 2026
The Rivals Mark Van Doren 1926
Poem for Haruko June Jordan 2017
Parent's Pantoum Carolyn Kizer 1996
Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 1989
Lines for a Sun-Dial Alfred Noyes 1907
The Carrying Ada Limón 2017
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
From “Simple Verses” José Martí 2005
Relax Ellen Bass 2014
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women Alice Duer Miller 1915
Regret Denise Low 2025
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Goodtime Jesus James Tate 1979
Go Down, Death James Weldon Johnson 1927
Valentine for Ernest Mann Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
The Song of the Jellicles T. S. Eliot 1939

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