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Title Author Year
French Toast Cammy Thomas 2021
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra Marilyn Chin 1987
The Woman and the Flame Aimé Césaire 2011
Photoshopping My Sister’s Mugshot Andrea Gibson 2018
In a Disused Graveyard Robert Frost 2023
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding Beth Ann Fennelly 2021
Thai Massage Sasha Pimentel 2017
Five Directions to My House Juan Felipe Herrera 2008
The Haunted Palace Edgar Allan Poe 1839
This Was Once a Love Poem Jane Hirshfield 2001
Infant Joy William Blake 1789
Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier 1894
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
The Vanity of Human Wishes Samuel Johnson 2018
Listening Amy Lowell 2017
The Gift Li-Young Lee 1986
Making a Fist Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Going and Staying Thomas Hardy 1922
The Flight of the Crows Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018

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