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Title Author Year
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady) Geoffrey Chaucer 1602
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006
Home Burial Robert Frost 1916
Letter Home Natasha Trethewey 2002
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001
Não, João Tracy K. Smith 2026
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
The World Is Too Much With Us Leila Chatti 2026
Love’s Language Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1901
When It Comes Down To It Ada Limón 2022
8. bell hooks 2012
Danse Africaine Langston Hughes 1924
Why We Oppose Votes for Men Alice Duer Miller 1915
Ode to My Hair Aria Aber 2019
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017

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