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Title Author Year
Kid, these are train tracks, Jeffrey Bean 2018
A Bell, Still Unrung Safiya Sinclair 2016
The Woodlice Aracelis Girmay 2015
Testimony Joseph Fasano 2014
Marriage William Carlos Williams 1916
Suburban Michael Blumenthal 1987
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
Stillbirth Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2007
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Flying Sarah Arvio 2002
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [I stood in Venice] Lord George Gordon Byron 1818
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1926
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020
After He’s Decided to Leave Elizabeth Acevedo 2019
The Women’s Litany Margaret Widdemer 2018
To One in Paradise Edgar Allan Poe 2018

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