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Title Author Year
How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual Pamela Spiro Wagner 2009
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Momentum Catherine Doty 2005
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
Black Nikes Harryette Mullen 1997
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
Erasers Meghan O’Rourke 2026
Nothing Promised Avia Tadmor 2025
Learn Your Song Gabriel Ramirez 2025
From “The Windy City” Carl Sandburg 1928
Gitanjali 63 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 56 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
My Little Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
The Pact Victoria Redel 2022
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017
The Maze Mary-Kim Arnold 2021
Yearnings For Home Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1846
Unwished For Shira Erlichman 2019

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