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Title Author Year
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
Forever Margaret Ross 2026
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Our Land Langston Hughes 1925
Wind Gwendolyn Bennett 1924
To Winter Claude McKay 1922
Ode to People Who Hate Me Carmen Giménez 2023
American Sonnet for the New Year Terrance Hayes 2022
Dawn Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Twerk Villanelle Porsha Olayiwola 2019
The Sea and the Skylark Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Now What Solmaz Sharif 2019
On Pleasure Kahlil Gibran 1923
Will You Come? Edward Thomas 2018
The Last Thing Ada Limón 2018
Anthropocene Nomi Stone 2018
The Village Street Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Mariposa Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Letter to the Northern Lights Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2016
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 2016

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