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Title Author Year
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill (Sonnet 91) William Shakespeare 1904
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown Saeed Jones 2014
Any Common Desolation Ellen Bass 2016
Bringing the Shovel Down Ross Gay 2016
The Republic of Poetry Martín Espada 2016
Daily Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
From “Elegy in Joy” Muriel Rukeyser 2011
Unbidden Rae Armantrout 2009
Sport Langston Hughes 1927
Gitanjali 69 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Charm of 5:30 David Berman 2013
The Long Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2013
Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud? William Knox 1876
The Aeneid, Book I [Arms and the man I sing] Virgil 1907
To My Mother Christina Rossetti 1842
A Green Crab’s Shell Mark Doty 1995
The Earthlings Matthew Olzmann 2023
Declaration Tracy K. Smith 2018
All the Tired Horses in the Sun Joy Harjo 2018

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