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Title Author Year
Pieces of the Past Michelle Bitting 2026
Photoshopping My Sister’s Mugshot Andrea Gibson 2018
The Sparrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017
The Death of the Hired Man Robert Frost 2018
Possum Crossing Nikki Giovanni 2003
Classic Water David Berman 2013
Zombie Hadara Bar-Nadav 2018
Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels Paola Capó-García 2018
Wartime Christmas Joyce Kilmer 2017
Sea Violet H.D. 2016
Footprint on Your Heart Gary Lenhart 2010
What It Must Have Felt Like Ada Limón 2020
Love is too young to know what conscience is: (Sonnet 151) William Shakespeare 1904
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
A Cry from an Indian Wife Emily Pauline Johnson 1900
White Things Anne Spencer 1923
The Sentry Wilfred Owen 2018
After Words Kimberly Blaeser 2018
Five Directions to My House Juan Felipe Herrera 2008

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