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Title Author Year
Elevator Boy Langston Hughes 1926
As dogs Rachel B. Glaser 2021
Nimbawaadaan Akiing / I Dream a World Margaret Noodin 2021
Evening Dorianne Laux 2019
We Were All Odysseus in Those Days Amorak Huey 2019
The Fear Robert Frost 2018
The Wall Hanging I Never Noticed Dorothea Lasky 2014
Weather Eve Merriam 1966
Yet Do I Marvel Countee Cullen 1922
The African Picnic Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Gitanjali 97 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
The Forest for the Trees Rena Priest 2021
Youth Langston Hughes 1925
How heavy do I journey on the way (Sonnet 50) William Shakespeare 1904
The Leash Ada Limón 2016
My Friend Tree Lorine Niedecker 1985
A Certain Lady Dorothy Parker 1926
The Coming of the Ship Kahlil Gibran 1923
Of the Threads that Connect the Stars Martín Espada 2018
The Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017

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