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Title Author Year
The Long Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2013
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
Kid, this is October, Jeffrey Bean 2018
The Last Thing Ada Limón 2018
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
Pastoral William Carlos Williams 2016
The Mind in State Fady Joudah 2016
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
Sonnet V Mahmoud Darwish 2007
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
Siri as Mother Hala Alyan 2024
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
Espergesia César Vallejo 1918
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023

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