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Title Author Year
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
Chansons Innocentes: I E. E. Cummings 1976
Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm Wo Chan 2026
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
Come Let Us Be Friends Sarah Lee Brown Fleming 1920
Gitanjali 6 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
The Death of the Old Year Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
Deer’s Breath of Every Color Max Early 2022
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020
Lost Glimpses Luis G. Dato 1926
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on Their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
What of Fire? Marcus Jackson 2021
A Winter Twilight Angelina Weld Grimké 1923
My Hermitage Alexander Posey 1910
Beat! Beat! Drums! Walt Whitman
Breathe. As in. (shadow) Rosamond S. King 2019
Songs (VI) E. E. Cummings 1925

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