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Title Author Year
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) Craig Santos Perez 2017
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
The Coming of Light Mark Strand 2002
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
Omens Cecilia Llompart 2016
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
On Good and Evil Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
Fear Ciaran Carson 2001
In the Company of Women January Gill O’Neil 2014
Nocturne José Asunción Silva 1925
Approach of Winter William Carlos Williams 1921
Audre Lorde’s First Published Poem Christian Teresi 2026
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy] William Shakespeare 2016
Winter-Time Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Jack Prelutsky 1990

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