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Title Author Year
The Adoration William Rose Benét 1919
Three Haiku Matsuo Bashō 2026
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017
A Woman Is Talking to Death Judy Grahn 2016
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Jack Prelutsky 1990
Notes from a Field Hospital Suji Kwock Kim 2026
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names Assétou Xango 2017
Stray Elizabeth Alexander 2018
Eating Together Li-Young Lee 1986
Six Unrhymed Sonnets Diane Seuss 2018
To My Mother Edgar Allan Poe 1849
What Was Told, That Jalal al-Din Rumi 2002
The Cities Inside Us Alberto Ríos 1998
Book of Nonsense, 1, 10 & 12 Edward Lear 1846
My Hole. My Whole. Sam Sax 2024
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2011
Nomenclatures of Invisibility Mahtem Shiferraw 2017
the earth is a living thing Lucille Clifton 1991
To the Film Industry in Crisis Frank O’Hara 1957

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