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Title Author Year
Ode to Kool-Aid Marcus Jackson 2018
Give Me This Ada Limón 2020
To the Daisy William Wordsworth 1807
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo 2016
A Day Emily Dickinson 1891
The Sleepers Walt Whitman 1891
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman 1891
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
Butter Elizabeth Alexander 2017
sisters Lucille Clifton 1989
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Map Edgar Silex 2026
Thanksgiving James Whitcomb Riley 2017
[You love yourself only when in pain] Dan Sociu 2026
Migration Jenny George 2020
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
The Adoration William Rose Benét 1919
I Have to Write the Book You’ll Burn Vievee Francis 2026

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