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Title Author Year
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Ernest Dowson 1900
Nothing Wants to Suffer Danusha Laméris 2021
The Seedling Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Heritage Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you Kevin Varrone 2013
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son] William Shakespeare 1611
An Acrostic Edgar Allan Poe 1911
I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At José Olivarez 2017
The Conundrum of the Workshops Rudyard Kipling 1890
Short-Order Cook Jim Daniels 1985
Gitanjali 50 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Six-Legged Blessing of Strength Michael Walsh 2026
once a marine biologist told me octopuses have three hearts Denice Frohman 2018
Songs for the People Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1896
I Hear an Army James Joyce 1914
Nani Alberto Ríos 2019
Maps Yesenia Montilla 2017
The Garden Andrew Marvell 1681
Footfalls Sharon Creech 2004

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