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Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
Appalling Heart Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
Ode to the Boy Who Jumped Me Monica Sok 2020
XLV [Before the ice is in the pools] Emily Dickinson 1896
The Rules Leila Chatti 2019
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1903
I Have Read the Whole Moon Emily Skaja 2019
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49) William Shakespeare 1904
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way Martín Espada 2018
Diaspora Sonnet 25 Oliver de la Paz 2018
Immigrant Can’t Write Poetry Wang Ping 2018
The Wild Ride Louise Imogen Guiney 1909
Poem of Regret for an Old Friend Meghan O’Rourke 2017
The Mystery Paul Laurence Dunbar 2015
The Graduate Leaving College George Moses Horton 1845
A House Divided Kyle Dargan 2013
mulberry fields Lucille Clifton 1991

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