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Title Author Year
How the Milky Way Was Made Natalie Diaz 2016
Youth Langston Hughes 1925
Song of Myself, 18 Walt Whitman 1891
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018
What the Thrush Said John Keats 2015
The Vampire Madison Julius Cawein 1896
Block City Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
Leaving the University Gym Sasha Pimentel 2017
Cherry blossoms Toi Derricotte 2011
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI) Sir Walter Scott 1805
My Friend Tree Lorine Niedecker 1985
The Paper Nautilus Marianne Moore 1923
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale] William Shakespeare 1596
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle Henry Charles Beeching 1895
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth Phillis Wheatley 1773
The Voice Thomas Hardy 1915
Love Song Dorothy Parker 1926
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
notes on the seasons Roque Raquel Salas Rivera 2018
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker John Olivares Espinoza 2017

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