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Title Author Year
Things We Carry on the Sea Wang Ping 2018
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
Como Tú / Like You / Like Me Richard Blanco 2019
Borges and I Jorge Luis Borges 1999
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done] William Shakespeare 2016
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
Epitaph on a Tyrant W. H. Auden 1940
Nonsense Alphabet Edward Lear 1846
Thirteen Ways of Looking Ama Codjoe 2023
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
To a Stranger Walt Whitman 1900
Autumn Alexander Posey 1910
A Nation's Strength William Ralph Emerson 1847
Under the Harvest Moon Carl Sandburg 1916
Bury Me in a Free Land Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
Salt and Sand Kathryn Kysar 2026
Ghost House Robert Frost 1913
Halloween Arthur Peterson 1916

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