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Title Author Year
Iris of Life Zitkála-Šá 1898
Real Estate Richard Siken 2020
Kid, this is the first rain Jeffrey Bean 2018
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018
Five Directions to My House Juan Felipe Herrera 2008
Only a Dad Edgar Guest 1916
The Host of the Air W. B. Yeats 1893
The Vanity of Human Wishes Samuel Johnson 2018
Summer Haibun Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2017
All I Ever Wanted Katie Ford 2017
The Sadness of Clothes Emily Fragos 2015
My Childhood Home I See Again Abraham Lincoln 1847
Autumn Movement Carl Sandburg 1918
The Land of Nod Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
We Are Seven William Wordsworth 1798
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding Beth Ann Fennelly 2021
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World Martín Espada 2017
After the Movie Marie Howe 2008
Block City Robert Louis Stevenson 1913

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