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Title Author Year
Moon Tonight Gwendolyn Bennett 1926
Gitanjali 82 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
Beeches David St. John 2021
And That Mysterious Word Holy Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Dejection: An Ode Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802
The Sound of Their Names Ellen Bass 2020
When Fannie Lou Hamer Said Mahogany L. Browne 2020
The Hunter’s Wooing Ruth Muskrat Bronson 1921
The Past Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
A Reading from the Book of Exile Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
Spring in War-Time Sara Teasdale 2018
Canto V Ezra Pound
The Self-Unseeing Thomas Hardy 2018
White Boy Time Machine: Override Hieu Minh Nguyen 2018
The Laughing Child W. S. Merwin 2016
Echolocation Sally Bliumis-Dunn 2016
Praxis Wendy Xu 2016
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012

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