Poems

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Title	Author	Year
I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)	Emily Dickinson	1951
I, Too	Langston Hughes	1994
Lift Every Voice and Sing	James Weldon Johnson	1917
Diving into the Wreck	Adrienne Rich	1973
O Me! O Life!	Walt Whitman	1891
Harlem	Langston Hughes	1994
Dream Variations	Langston Hughes	1994
Self-Portrait at 28	David Berman	2013
In This Place (An American Lyric)	Amanda Gorman	2018
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot	1915
The Waste Land	T. S. Eliot	1922
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
[last summer I folded my dresses into storage]	Isa Borgeson	2026
As I Grew Older	Langston Hughes	1926
Honestly,	John Ashbery	2015
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me]	William Shakespeare	1603
Harlem: The Black City	Fenton Johnson	1916
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly	Ariana Brown	2026
for goldfish that remember seaworld	D’mani Thomas	2026

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