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Title Author Year
The Inward Morning Henry David Thoreau 2016
Suburban Michael Blumenthal 1987
That This Susan Howe 2011
We’ll Go No More a-Roving William Ernest Henley 1893
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
In Summer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
On His Deceased Wife John Milton 1658
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Po' Boy Blues Langston Hughes 1994
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
Where Is My Friend? Dorianne Laux 2026
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
Why I Needed To Richard Blanco 2023
I, Lover Elsa Gidlow 1923
Pestilence Philip Freneau 1795
[I come weary,] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Particulate Matter Molly Fisk 2018
At a Window Carl Sandburg 1916
Oughta Be a Woman June Jordan 2017

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