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Title Author Year
Diaspora Sonnet 25 Oliver de la Paz 2018
Israfel Edgar Allan Poe 2018
I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise Diane Seuss 2018
Tuesday 9/11/01 Lucille Clifton 2017
Irony Layli Long Soldier 2016
In the Dream Jenny Johnson 2016
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter] William Shakespeare 2016
A Bird Song Christina Rossetti 1873
Mother Lola Ridge 1920
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons Christopher Kennedy 2011
it was a dream Lucille Clifton 1992
Picture-books in Winter Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16 Homer 1975
The Specific Ocean Jenny Browne 2026
In a Village in the West Bank Naomi Shihab Nye 2025
No crowd that has occurred (111) Emily Dickinson 1929
Mother's Rules Yalie Saweda Kamara 2016
Much Later Gertrude Stein 1926
testify Eve L. Ewing 2022
Professional Spanish Knocks on the Door Elisabet Velasquez 2021

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