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Title Author Year
The Life of Trees Dorianne Laux 2009
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley Jupiter Hammon 1787
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
Sonnet 100 Lord Brooke Fulke Greville 1633
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
Day of the Refugios Alberto Ríos 1994
If You Get There Before I Do Dick Allen 2003
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) William Shakespeare 1609
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
MMXXVI Rowan Ricardo Phillips 2026
Beeches David St. John 2021
Self James Oppenheim 1916
Aunt Chloe's Politics Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1891
Convalescence Amy Lowell 2018
Asking for Roses Robert Frost 2018
Given to Rust Vievee Francis 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
Cotton Candy Edward Hirsch 2010
Dusting Marilyn Nelson 1994

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