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Title Author Year
As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed Jack Prelutsky 1990
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
Não, João Tracy K. Smith 2026
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
Tender Buttons [Breakfast] Gertrude Stein 1914
Love’s Growth John Donne 1633
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
After the Reading Tiana Clark 2023
Disappointed Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Blue-Butterfly Day Robert Frost 1923
Haunted Siegfried Sassoon 1917
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
It Is Important To Be Something Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2018
Kudzu Saeed Jones 2015
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
At Pegasus Terrance Hayes 1999
My 24 Hour Version Lois Red Elk 2017
Stoicism for Beginners Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026

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