Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Theme for English B	Langston Hughes	1994
Middle Passage	Robert Hayden	2017
This Is Not a Small Voice	Sonia Sanchez	2018
Gate A-4	Naomi Shihab Nye	2008
I, Too	Langston Hughes	1994
On the Pulse of Morning	Maya Angelou	1993
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1861
Howl, Parts I & II	Allen Ginsberg	1984
One Today	Richard Blanco	2016
Grandpa	Diana Marie Delgado	2021
In This Place (An American Lyric)	Amanda Gorman	2018
Let America Be America Again	Langston Hughes	1994
Lift Every Voice and Sing	James Weldon Johnson	1917
No Explosions	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
This Evening Let’s	Adrienne Rich	2004
Come. Pray. Know	DaMaris B. Hill	2025
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLIX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XLVI)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, XXXVIII)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885
From “Twasinta’s Seminoles” (Canto IV, IX)	Albery Allson Whitman	1885

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1994