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Title Author Year
Cross Langston Hughes 1922
Who will believe my verse in time to come (Sonnet 17) William Shakespeare 1904
Hunch Jay Parini 2016
The Woodlice Aracelis Girmay 2015
Marriage William Carlos Williams 1916
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
[to keep knowing] Aracelis Girmay 2023
Gitanjali 13 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
News Item Dorothy Parker 1926
Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman
At a Window Carl Sandburg 1916
Autumn Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’ Danez Smith 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
Again Ross Gay 2016
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016
15¢ Futures Marilyn Nelson 2015

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