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Title Author Year
The Change Tony Hoagland 2003
The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet 1678
Song T. S. Eliot 2017
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight Jane Hirshfield 1997
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This Hanif Abdurraqib 2018
Equinox Elizabeth Alexander 2016
Break, Break, Break Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842
Burning Car Tires Octavio Quintanilla 2026
The Kiss Sasha Pimentel 2017
“We As Women” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Return Ezra Pound 1913
The Day Is Done Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1845
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time] Claudia Rankine 2004
Art, Herman Melville 1891
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Li Bai 1916
Playing with Bees RK Fauth 2023
My Loves Langston Hughes 1922
Jazzonia Langston Hughes 1926
Flowers from the Volcano Claribel Alegría 2018
Emergency Haying Hayden Carruth 2006

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