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Title Author Year
People and a Heron Robinson Jeffers 1925
Kaōnōn Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 2024
To a Wreath of Snow Emily Brontë 1908
The Spanish Needle Claude McKay 1922
The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780
Rain William Saphier 1920
the independence (of puerto rico) Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 2020
Song of Myself, 14 Walt Whitman 1891
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904
Carol Ishion Hutchinson 2018
The Spires of Oxford Winifred M. Letts 2018
Pain Scale Catherine Barnett 2018
A Boy Can Wear a Dress John Bosworth 2018
Notes on the Peanut June Jordan 2017
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017
Washington Mews Rowan Ricardo Phillips 2016
This Much and More Djuna Barnes 2019
Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK Bianca Stone 2015
Left-Handed Sugar Jane Hirshfield 2011
Imagine Kamilah Aisha Moon 2014

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