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The Colonel Carolyn Forché 1981
Ode to Fat Ellen Bass 2020
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021
Meditations in an Emergency Frank O’Hara 1957
To Earthward Robert Frost 1916
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
9. E. E. Cummings 2010
Reading John Donne’s Holy Sonnets Aloud as a Teenager Michael Collier 2026
Go ahead, Lord, break our harp Jalal al-Din Rumi 2026
Beans Mary Oliver 2004
The Gift to Sing James Weldon Johnson 2015
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Nâzim Hikmet 1986
My Life Closed Twice Cameron Awkward-Rich 2023
The Lovers of the Poor Gwendolyn Brooks 1999
Good-Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Never give all the heart W. B. Yeats 1904
The Vampire Rudyard Kipling 1897
I Sing the Body Electric Walt Whitman 1891

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