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Title Author Year
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
A Story Li-Young Lee 1990
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
To a Locomotive in Winter Walt Whitman 1891
A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsberg 1984
Dusk After Your Passing Ada Limón 2026
My Skeleton Jane Hirshfield 2013
To the Film Industry in Crisis Frank O’Hara 1957
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Sunset, Venice Beach, October Kalehua Kim 2026
The Song of Wandering Aengus W. B. Yeats 1899
Fear Ciaran Carson 2001
The Theologian’s Tale; Elizabeth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863
These Poems June Jordan 1977
Gitanjali 27 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
At the Touch of You Witter Bynner 2014
Hummingbird Abecedarian Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018

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