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Title Author Year
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison Nâzim Hikmet 1994
When the Orders Came Fatimah Asghar 2018
America Claude McKay 1921
You Know Me Valeria Ruiz 2024
Mother Earth: Her Whales Gary Snyder 2017
Booker T. And W.E.B. Dudley Randall 2009
America Robert Creeley 1991
The Vanity of Human Wishes Samuel Johnson 2018
Nationhood Laura Da’ 2018
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene I [Wherefore rejoice?] William Shakespeare 2016
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus] William Shakespeare 2017
Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County Jay Parini 2016
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
The Earthlings Matthew Olzmann 2023
On the Freedom of the Press Benjamin Franklin 2017
Declaration Tracy K. Smith 2018
Poem about My Rights June Jordan 2017
Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker 2016
Burn Out Amy M. Alvarez 2026
Song of Myself, 4 Walt Whitman 1891

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