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Title Author Year
I Ask My Mother to Sing Li-Young Lee 2017
Leave No Trace Maggie Dietz 2016
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016
The Red Sweater Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
The River Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the Beach at Night Alone Walt Whitman 1891
Peace Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye Albert Goldbarth 2007
Silence Thomas Hood 1827
Notes for Canto CXX Ezra Pound 1956
Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio 2000
Fletcher McGee Edgar Lee Masters 1921
Waking in Deep Night to the Great Bear Susan Deer Cloud 2026
To a Young Poet Zaina Alsous 2025
To a Bride Mary Toles Peet 1903
Iris of Life Zitkála-Šá 1898
The Immigrant Aline Mello 2022
From “The Trees Witness Everything” Victoria Chang 2021
Kal Fatimah Asghar 2018
Uriel Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847

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