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Title Author Year
A Negro Love Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Blue Plate Jesse Lee Kercheval 2004
Prayer Jorie Graham 2002
The Junior High School Band Concert David Wagoner 1999
To the Oracle at Delphi Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2001
Twilight: After Haying Jane Kenyon 1996
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees Muriel Leung 2026
Post Partum Nikita Deshpande 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
The Sea / Is Sacred Still Andrew Calis 2025
The War Against Birthdays Josh Bell 2025
I Don’t Wish to be a Vampire Elaine Equi 2025
The Creek in Shirley Canyon Robert Hass 2025
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
Ipswich Eugene Field 1906
Displaced Mosab Abu Toha 2022
The Specious Present Catherine Barnett 2023
Gitanjali 93 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
The Haunted House Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1834
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020

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