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Title Author Year
One Sister have I in our house (14) Emily Dickinson 1890
Go Down, Death James Weldon Johnson 1927
Preludes T. S. Eliot 1920
Queer Frank Bidart 2012
The Jumblies Edward Lear 1871
The Snail William Cowper 1731
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Wallace Stevens 1921
My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
To Roosevelt Rubén Darío 1903
The Vampire Rudyard Kipling 1897
Butter Elizabeth Alexander 2017
A Story Li-Young Lee 1990
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
Sunset, Venice Beach, October Kalehua Kim 2026
The Adoration William Rose Benét 1919
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo 2016
Migration Jenny George 2020
From “Simple Verses” José Martí 2005
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931

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