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Title Author Year
How I Got that Name Marilyn Chin 1994
The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951
Omens Cecilia Llompart 2016
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Wanting to Die Anne Sexton 1981
Spellbound Emily Brontë 1837
In the Company of Women January Gill O’Neil 2014
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) Craig Santos Perez 2017
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
My Skeleton Jane Hirshfield 2013
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Jack Prelutsky 1990
November Edward Thomas
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
The Coming of Light Mark Strand 2002
Fear Ciaran Carson 2001
From Blossoms Li-Young Lee 1986

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