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Title Author Year
Love’s Lantern Joyce Kilmer 1914
Autumn, New York, 1999 Patricia Spears Jones 2016
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) Emily Dickinson 1890
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
The Collar George Herbert 1633
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 1858
Sisyphus Shara Lessley 2026
The Eyes of My Regret Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
The Hurricane José María Heredia 1918
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
After the Winter Claude McKay 1922
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Holdfast Robin Beth Schaer 2019
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
After the Winter Claude McKay 2015
A Winter Blue Jay Sara Teasdale 2014
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991

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