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Title Author Year
The Weighing Jane Hirshfield 1994
Gitanjali 95 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Homesick Blues Langston Hughes 1927
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
Perfect Woman William Wordsworth 1807
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death W. B. Yeats 1919
Love Poem to Taco Bell Rebecca Bornstein 2026
It Begins With the Trees Ada Limón 2022
Iris of Life Zitkála-Šá 1898
Here Arthur Sze 1998
Haiku [for you] Sonia Sanchez 2018
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d Walt Whitman 1981
So we’ll go no more a roving Lord George Gordon Byron 1830
The Awakening James Weldon Johnson 2016
Saint Francis and the Sow Galway Kinnell 2000
After great pain a formal feeling comes — (175) Emily Dickinson 1929
To a Dead Friend Langston Hughes 1922
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt] Aimé Césaire 2001
Stars Robert Frost 2018
The Dream of Knife, Fork, and Spoon Kimiko Hahn 2016

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