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Title Author Year
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
Rumi Joseph Fasano
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026
From “The Lady of the Lake” (Canto I) Sir Walter Scott 1810
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
Duplex for the Sick & Tired Kay Ulanday Barrett 2024
Old England Claude McKay 1912
Gitanjali 91 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2022
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017
Cassette County David Berman 2003
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
Yesterday and To-morrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
O Claire Wahmanholm 2020
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891

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