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Title Author Year
Consider the Hands that Write This Letter Aracelis Girmay 2007
Tender Buttons [A Chair] Gertrude Stein 1914
O'Connor at Andalusia Floyd Skloot 2006
Learning Judith Viorst 1981
Working Late Louis Simpson 1988
Voyages II Hart Crane 1933
To. . . René Char 2004
Song of Myself John Canaday 2002
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
The Lost Pilot James Tate 1967
The Great Migration Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Robert Lowell 1976
Buried Olivia E. Sears 2026
What Now Jacob Griffin Hall 2022
Father’s Love Jewel Rodgers 2026
[We waved them off long ago. So why] Dimitri Psurtsev 2026
I Talk Black Lady Brion 2018
I Have Built a Garden … Diana Bellessi 2026
blackgirl looking at blackbird Lucille Clifton 2026
So Cruel Prison Henry Howard 1557

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