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Title Author Year
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
Another Day Craig Morgan Teicher 2018
For the Candlelight Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Religious Instructions for Young Casualties Sandra María Esteves 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
My life has been the poem I would have writ Henry David Thoreau 1849
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface (Sonnet 6) William Shakespeare 2016
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?] Samuel Daniel 1610
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last Lisa Olstein 2016
Youth Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Bracken Kai Carlson-Wee 2018
Life and Art Aldous Huxley 1920
Fool’s Gold Ted Mathys 2020
Days Ralph Waldo Emerson 1912
When the Virus Comes Angelo Geter 2020
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
The Nightingale to the Workman Morris Rosenfeld 1914
Advice to Youth Countee Cullen 1925
The Way We Love Something Small Kimberly Blaeser 2020

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