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Title Author Year
What It Must Have Felt Like Ada Limón 2020
On Freedom Kahlil Gibran 1923
14 haiku Sonia Sanchez 2016
Sport Langston Hughes 1927
(De)colonial Therapy Esther Belin 2021
It Was the Animals Natalie Diaz 2020
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour” Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Coffee Matthew Dickman 2017
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
Moon for Our Daughters Annie Finch 2016
Grief Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2016
Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker 2016
The Republic of Poetry Martín Espada 2016
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
Love James Russell Lowell 2016
That Music Always Round Me Walt Whitman 1891
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905
Sharks in the Rivers Ada Limón 2010
A Green Crab’s Shell Mark Doty 1995
When Malindy Sings Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901

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