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Title Author Year
The Last Thing Ada Limón 2018
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Phenomenal Woman (audio only) Maya Angelou 1978
Left-Handed Sugar Jane Hirshfield 2011
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
A Kite for Aibhin Seamus Heaney 2010
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Sonnet V Mahmoud Darwish 2007
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
Be Near Me Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind Thomas Wyatt 1550
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
The Crystal Gazer Sara Teasdale 1926
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018

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