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Title Author Year
The South Langston Hughes 1926
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War Joy Harjo 2019
Foul Ball David Bottoms 2018
Break, Break, Break Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time] Claudia Rankine 2004
Gold Donald Hall 1990
Home Bruce Weigl 2003
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!] William Shakespeare 1608
To the Pine Tree Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2020
The Change Tony Hoagland 2003
Going for Water Robert Frost 1915
Greensickness Laurel Chen 2022
The Seedling Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
An Enigma Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Odysseus to Telemachus Joseph Brodsky 1980
Trees at Night Helene Johnson 1925
On Talking Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Trial by Existence Robert Frost 1915
Emergency Haying Hayden Carruth 2006
Renascence Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956

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