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Title Author Year
Play the Game Jessie Pope 2018
Epistemology Catherine Barnett 2017
Phenomenal Woman (audio only) Maya Angelou 1978
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
Going Home the Longest Way Around Pat Schneider 2005
Folk Song Diane Seuss 2023
Dawn Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018
Nature Aria Yi Lei 2018
Sea Shell Amy Lowell 2018
I Ask My Mother to Sing Li-Young Lee 2017
The Evening Star Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2015
The Sirens James Russell Lowell 1840
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens 1915
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Ecce Puer James Joyce 1936
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Curriculum Vitae Lisel Mueller 1996

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