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Title Author Year
Grandfather A. Van Jordan 2022
Hard Daddy Langston Hughes 1922
A Drowsy Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Patients Aurora Levins Morales 2013
An Apology Julia Ward Howe 1854
I Am Like a Leaf Yone Noguchi 1921
My glass shall not persuade me I am old (Sonnet 22) William Shakespeare 1904
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904
Notebook, 1981 Eileen Myles 2018
Overnight John Yau 2018
Ghosts Kiki Petrosino 2017
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017
Why Whales Are Back in New York City Rajiv Mohabir 2017
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017
Music from Childhood John Yau 2016
On Imagination Phillis Wheatley 2016
On Halloween Janet Little 1792
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
I Love You Sara Teasdale 1911
The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem Amy Uyematsu 2005

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