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Title Author Year
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
Mother to Son Langston Hughes 1922
A Boy and His Dad Edgar Guest 1921
Mother Country Richard Blanco 2019
Yesterday W. S. Merwin 1983
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
Song of Myself, 46 Walt Whitman 1891
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
My Father Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
Arts & Craft Farid Matuk 2025
Odysseus to Telemachus Joseph Brodsky 1980
Prayer Laura Kasischke 2020
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
i know the grandmother one had hands Jaki Shelton Green 2019
Prayer of the Backhanded Jericho Brown 2016
All the Thoughts at a Football Game Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
To Any Reader Robert Louis Stevenson
Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick Derrick Austin 2015
Essay on Reentry Reginald Dwayne Betts 2019
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016

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