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Title Author Year
I Come to See for Myself Nancy Mercado 2024
Dusting Marilyn Nelson 1994
The Moon David Berman 2013
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies] Aracelis Girmay 2020
Home Norma Elia Cantú 2019
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017
Confessional Hieu Minh Nguyen 2019
Childhood Memories William Saphier 1920
I wanted to be surprised. Jane Hirshfield 2020
Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1878
109 Bermuda Kenzie Allen 2022
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
I begin the day thinking Taylor Byas 2025
Prayer for My Immigrant Relatives Lory Bedikian 2018
Proof Cornelius Eady 2026
Carol Ishion Hutchinson 2018
Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before Ina Cariño 2023
Ode on an Abandoned House Hayan Charara 2021
Central America in My Heart Oscar Gonzales 2016

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