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Title Author Year
Fireworks Edith Sitwell 1918
Danse Africaine Langston Hughes 1924
Absolute Jacqueline Woodson 2020
Blue-Butterfly Day Robert Frost 1923
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
Night Sky Don Bogen 2019
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy Terrance Hayes 2010
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
For the Bird Singing Before Dawn Kim Stafford 2022
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
Childhood Memories William Saphier 1920
Long, Too Long America Walt Whitman
Ode to My Hair Aria Aber 2019
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922

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