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Title Author Year
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015 Susan Briante 2010
A Story Li-Young Lee 1990
Sunset, Venice Beach, October Kalehua Kim 2026
Nine Spice Mix Zeina Azzam 2022
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] John Keats 1818
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Like You Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman 2018
Hummingbird Abecedarian Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
Thanks W. S. Merwin 1988
I Have to Write the Book You’ll Burn Vievee Francis 2026
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Spellbound Emily Brontë 1837
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Jack Prelutsky 1990

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