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Title Author Year
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III [excerpt] Lord George Gordon Byron 1818
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
For a Daughter Who Leaves Janice Mirikitani 2002
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1921
Of the Threads that Connect the Stars Martín Espada 2018
Invitation to the Voyage Charles Baudelaire 2006
Song to Celia Ben Jonson 1616
When Mama died, I lost my air DéLana R. A. Dameron 2025
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art Frank O’Hara 1957
Answer to a Child's Question Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817
The Land of Nod Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Colored Soldiers Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
A Winter Evening Alexander Pushkin 1910
our happiness Eileen Myles 2014
The Supple Deer Jane Hirshfield 2011
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark Michelle Bitting 2026
Gitanjali 36 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Justice Langston Hughes 1923
Song of Myself, V Walt Whitman 1891
Tell Me Something Good Ocean Vuong 2015

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