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Title Author Year
For My Mother May Sarton 2016
The Republic of Poetry Martín Espada 2016
To a Mouse, Robert Burns 1786
Workshop Billy Collins 1995
The Mosquito Knows D. H. Lawrence 1923
Gone with the Swallows Ameen Rihani 1905
Breaking Free Stuart Kestenbaum 2021
Driving at Night Rio Cortez 2020
For a Daughter Who Leaves Janice Mirikitani 2002
Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege Joseph Fasano 2024
Dogwood Blossoms George Marion McClellan 1922
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows Paige Lewis 2018
Autumn Christina Rossetti 2018
The African Picnic Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Lament Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
My Childhood Home I See Again Abraham Lincoln 1847
Once the World Was Perfect Joy Harjo 2018
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909
November Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
The Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017

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