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Title Author Year
A Bookshelf Hua Xi 2025
To My Dead Child Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Letters Found Near a Suicide Frank Horne 1927
Men Say They Know Many Things Henry David Thoreau 1943
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
Caribbean Sunset Langston Hughes 1926
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on Their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
And That Mysterious Word Holy Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017
a dream of foxes Lucille Clifton 1996
To A Brown Boy Countee Cullen
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires Forrest Gander 2020
How Heid E. Erdrich 2018
Thoughts in Jail Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
Plain Advice Jeff Gundy 2018
Sun Hadara Bar-Nadav 2018
Television Prevents Me From Seeing the World as It Really Is Carmen Giménez 2018
What I Would Like to Grow in My Garden Katherine Riegel 2018
Two Set Out on Their Journey Galway Kinnell 2018
Descent of the Composer Airea D. Matthews 2016

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