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Title Author Year
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
If You Get There Before I Do Dick Allen 2003
I Dare You Dorianne Laux 2023
I want Jordan Jace 2022
High Dangerous Catherine Pierce 2019
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean Patricia Smith 2016
Hysteria T. S. Eliot 1915
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
Into the Dusk-Charged Air John Ashbery 1997
History Carol Ann Duffy 2003
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
Who will believe my verse in time to come (Sonnet 17) William Shakespeare 1904
Nature George Herbert 2017
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016

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