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Title Author Year
The Concrete River Luis J. Rodriguez 1990
To a Young Poet Zaina Alsous 2025
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
Winter Anne Bradstreet 1650
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
The Aim Was Song Robert Frost 1921
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation Anthony Cody 2022
Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
Day-Dreams Dorothy Parker 1926
Change on Change Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1846
Together Carrie Williams Clifford 1922
The Tired Worker Claude McKay 1922
Childhood Memories William Saphier 1920
Free Labor Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1857
I wanted to be surprised. Jane Hirshfield 2020
Evening Song Willa Cather 1903
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147) William Shakespeare 1904
The Show Wilfred Owen 1921
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017

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