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Title Author Year
Canto I Ezra Pound 1956
[The rage that shatters a man into children,] César Vallejo 2026
In a Village in the West Bank Naomi Shihab Nye 2025
Planet Dread Safiya Sinclair 2023
The Aim Was Song Robert Frost 1921
The Harp of Broken Strings John Rollin Ridge 1850
He Had His Dream Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Patients Aurora Levins Morales 2013
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021
Love is a Flame George Marion McClellan 1916
Do Not Cheer, Men are Dying Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Self-Portrait with Eraser Andrea Cohen 2018
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
The Dream of Shoji Kimiko Hahn 2016
Black Rhinoceros Edward Hirsch 2014
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
A Short History of the Apple Dorianne Laux 2011
One day is there of the series Emily Dickinson 1890
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea Cecilia Woloch 2010

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