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Title Author Year
Tree of Knowledge, No. 7B Victoria Chang 2026
Railroad Avenue Langston Hughes 1926
Gitanjali 57 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Art of Shooting in the Dark Denice Frohman 2022
Chile’s Land Gabriela Mistral 2003
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
Wind Gwendolyn Bennett 1924
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
Nature Aria Yi Lei 2018
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Love’s Lantern Joyce Kilmer 1914
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore 1961
Going Home the Longest Way Around Pat Schneider 2005
Before William Ernest Henley 1908
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023

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