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Title Author Year
Possum Crossing Nikki Giovanni 2003
The Earthlings Matthew Olzmann 2023
White Things Anne Spencer 1923
Defeat Kahlil Gibran 1918
Zombie Hadara Bar-Nadav 2018
French Toast Cammy Thomas 2021
Justice Langston Hughes 1923
Fog Robert Hillyer 1921
Heartbeats Melvin Dixon 2017
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60) William Shakespeare 2016
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III [excerpt] Lord George Gordon Byron 1818
From “Elegy in Joy” Muriel Rukeyser 2011
A Political Litany Philip Freneau 1775
The Dying Man and the Vulture Kahlil Gibran 2026
Revolutionary Letter #1 Diane di Prima 1971
On Freedom Kahlil Gibran 1923
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
You Meet Someone and Later You Meet Their Dancing and You Have to Start Again David Welch 2018
Dead Leaves Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
Song of Myself, V Walt Whitman 1891

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