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Title Author Year
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
Work Without Hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1825
Late Autumn Wasp James Hoch 2007
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
A Winter Blue Jay Sara Teasdale 2014
The Past Louise Glück 2014
To America James Weldon Johnson 1917
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Ecce Puer James Joyce 1936
Segesta Edith Wharton 1926
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Time-Sensitive Franny Choi 2023
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
After the Winter Claude McKay 1922
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
The Onset Robert Frost 1923
Wonder Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
A Coney Island of the Mind, 20 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958

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