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Title Author Year
I wanted to be surprised. Jane Hirshfield 2020
Evening Song Willa Cather 1903
Nationhood Laura Da’ 2018
The Inward Morning Henry David Thoreau 2016
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter] William Shakespeare 2016
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Cattails Nikky Finney 2011
Complaint William Carlos Williams 1921
The Things Donald Hall 2011
Road Trip Kurt Brown 2010
Text Messages Jordan Davis 2010
Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling 1892
In Jerusalem Mahmoud Darwish 2005
The Feast of Lights Emma Lazarus 1882
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With Suzanne Rancourt 2004
Song of Hope Daisy Zamora 1995
Devotion Tracy K. Smith 2026
The Manic Depressive’s Alphabet Anahita Monfared 2025
Memory Anne Brontë 1920
Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC Aaron Tyler Hand 2024

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