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Title Author Year
Prayer Nancy Cunard 2026
Song of Myself, 32 Walt Whitman 1891
O Autumn, Autumn! Effie Lee Newsome 2017
You Can’t Have It All Barbara Ras 1997
The Cities Inside Us Alberto Ríos 1998
The Border: A Double Sonnet Alberto Ríos 2016
The Portrait Stanley Kunitz 1991
Long Distance II Tony Harrison 1984
Forever is composed of Nows (25) Emily Dickinson 1929
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
Inferno, Canto XXXIV Dante Alighieri 1877
“I Shall Come Back” Dorothy Parker 1926
Social Distancing Juan Felipe Herrera 2020
I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet IV) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920
Fast Break Edward Hirsch 1986
Snow in October Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Al Aaraaf Edgar Allan Poe
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
Meditations in an Emergency Frank O’Hara 1957
At Sunset Emily Pauline Johnson 1917

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