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Title Author Year
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
Thanks W. S. Merwin 1988
The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
The Lovers of the Poor Gwendolyn Brooks 1999
Omens Cecilia Llompart 2016
The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
These Poems June Jordan 1977
A Woman Is Talking to Death Judy Grahn 2016
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy] William Shakespeare 2016
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
To a Locomotive in Winter Walt Whitman 1891
The Emperor of Ice-Cream Wallace Stevens 1922
Fish Fucking Michael Blumenthal 1984
A Supermarket in California Allen Ginsberg 1984
Measure Me, Sky! Leonora Speyer 1922

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