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Title Author Year
Nocturne José Asunción Silva 1925
Immigrant Blues Li-Young Lee 2008
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
God’s World Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Election Year Richard Blanco 2016
What Now? Gary Soto 2016
To the Daisy William Wordsworth 1807
Praise Song for the Day Elizabeth Alexander 2009
There is no frigate like a book (1263) Emily Dickinson 1890
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
Go ahead, Lord, break our harp Jalal al-Din Rumi 2026
A Story Li-Young Lee 1990
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Wallace Stevens 1921
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015 Susan Briante 2010
Pilgrimage Natasha Trethewey 2006
Lot’s Wife Anna Akhmatova 1973
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Into My Own Robert Frost 2018
My Skeleton Jane Hirshfield 2013
Thanks W. S. Merwin 1988

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