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Title Author Year
Coronach Sir Walter Scott 1875
Quiet Janani Balasubramanian 2026
Petrichor, After a Burial Denise Low 2025
Naïve Tim Seibles 2024
The Indian’s Awakening Zitkála-Šá 1916
The Hermit Claude McKay 1912
Yellow Moon Angela Manalang-Gloria 1927
The Battle-Field William Cullen Bryant 1878
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door Elisabet Velasquez 2021
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Song of Myself, 44 Walt Whitman 1891
13 Questions for the Next Economy Susan Briante 2018
Haiku [i am moving in] Sonia Sanchez 2018
A Boy Can Wear a Dress John Bosworth 2018
Overnight John Yau 2018
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
FaceTime Clint Smith 2017
American Pharoah Ada Limón 2016
United Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
Our House Sophie Cabot Black 2016

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