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Não, João Tracy K. Smith 2026
Big Clock Li-Young Lee 2021
Danse Africaine Langston Hughes 1924
Dear New Blood Mark Turcotte 2020
Absolute Jacqueline Woodson 2020
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies] Aracelis Girmay 2020
Aunt Chloe's Politics Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1891
Evening Star Edgar Allan Poe 2018
It Is Important To Be Something Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2018
Cardiology Rafael Campo 2018
Oughta Be a Woman June Jordan 2017
My 24 Hour Version Lois Red Elk 2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016
The Evening Star Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2015
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Cotton Candy Edward Hirsch 2010
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Our eunuch dreams Dylan Thomas 1953
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853

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