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Title Author Year
Like You Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman 2018
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1895
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
Hummingbird Abecedarian Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
A Story Li-Young Lee 1990
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
I Have to Write the Book You’ll Burn Vievee Francis 2026
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
the earth is a living thing Lucille Clifton 1991
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] John Keats 1818
Spellbound Emily Brontë 1837
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe 2018
From Blossoms Li-Young Lee 1986

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