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Title Author Year
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
Spring Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Sea Charm Langston Hughes 1926
pantoum for aiyana & not a single hashtag Aurielle Marie 2021
Everything Needs Fixing Karla Cordero 2021
To A Brown Boy Countee Cullen
Morning Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
What Governments Say to Women Alice Duer Miller 1915
The Creative Drive Catherine Barnett 2019
Self-Portrait with Dad’s Baseball Glove Nathan Hoks 2019
A Reading from the Book of Exile Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Song of Myself, 47 Walt Whitman 1891
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are (Sonnet 13) William Shakespeare 1904
The Spires of Oxford Winifred M. Letts 2018
Thaw Edward Thomas
Perennials Maggie Smith 2018
In the Home Stretch Robert Frost 2018
I Want to Save This Whale Lisa Olstein 2018
Paris Willa Cather 1903
Speakin’ O’ Christmas Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922

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