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Title Author Year
The Parakeets Alberto Blanco 1995
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 2009
What Now? Gary Soto 2016
Inferno, Canto XXXIV Dante Alighieri 1877
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
Match Jason Reynolds 2020
At Sunset Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
To me, fair friend, you never can be old (Sonnet 104) William Shakespeare 2016
Hummingbird Abecedarian Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
O Autumn, Autumn! Effie Lee Newsome 2017
Fast Break Edward Hirsch 1986
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
In the Discount Lot Angela C. Trudell Vasquez 2021
The Angel William Blake 1901
“What Do Women Want?” Kim Addonizio 2000
The Border: A Double Sonnet Alberto Ríos 2016
My First Memory (of Librarians) Nikki Giovanni 2007
A Line-storm Song Robert Frost 1913
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
A Clear Midnight Walt Whitman 1891

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