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Title Author Year
An Apology Julia Ward Howe 1854
River to River Hai-Dang Phan 2019
Song of Myself, 15 Walt Whitman 1891
Songs (IV) E. E. Cummings 1923
September Helen Hunt Jackson 1886
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
Soul Train Allison Joseph 2017
My Mama moved among the days Lucille Clifton 2017
Clue Nicole Sealey 2017
Astronomers Locate a New Planet Matthew Olzmann 2016
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016
Mercy Tyehimba Jess 2016
Nature Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2019
There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier Matthew Rohrer 2014
Action Poem Helen Hoyt 1915
An August Midnight Thomas Hardy 1901
Spring Storm William Carlos Williams 1921
Alphabet Poem Edward Lear 1877
The Dead Mina Loy 1920
the lost women Lucille Clifton 1989

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