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Title Author Year
Man Hesitates but Life Urges D’Arcy McNickle 1926
Wild Horses Drink from the River of History Lois Roma-Deeley 2022
On the Hills of Dawn Alexander Posey 1910
Third Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 1697
From “Clarel” [Epilogue] Herman Melville 2019
From Let, Bloodlet Crisosto Apache 2026
Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora Terisa Siagatonu 2024
Borrow Sarah McCartt-Jackson 2024
Re-Voyage Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Florida Poem Emma Trelles 2011
Never Enough of Living Léonie Adams 1925
Returning Laura Tohe 2005
Talking About New Orleans Jayne Cortez 2009
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
Stars in Alabama Jessie Redmon Fauset 1928
The warble of melting snow is the river Emily Lee Luan 2023
The Humming-Bird Beatrice Ravenel 1923
Cape Cod George Santayana 1922
There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay Rindon Johnson 2022
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach Philip Whalen 2007

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