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Title Author Year
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1883
Fairies and Brownies Gertrude P. McBrown 1927
Sitting at Night on the Front Porch Charles Wright 2017
Record Player Adrian Matejka 2026
Incident Countee Cullen 1927
Manila Bay Luis G. Dato 1926
Booker T. And W.E.B. Dudley Randall 2009
Song of Myself, 2 Walt Whitman 2019
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry Howard Nemerov 1980
When the Orders Came Fatimah Asghar 2018
Song of the Open Road, 15 Walt Whitman 1891
When Dawn Comes to the City Claude McKay 1922
It was easier to manage Arisa White
The Dream of Knife, Fork, and Spoon Kimiko Hahn 2016
The Day Lady Died Frank O’Hara 1964
Prayer Langston Hughes 1927
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
The Demiurge’s Laugh Robert Frost 1915
To the River— Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Ice Would Suffice Risa Denenberg 2017

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