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Title Author Year
Dream-Land Edgar Allan Poe 1844
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
Absolute Jacqueline Woodson 2020
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies] Aracelis Girmay 2020
The Bowl Jane Hirshfield 2020
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing Walt Whitman 1892
The Forest Reverie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
The Dream of Shoji Kimiko Hahn 2016
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America Ada Limón 2012
The War After the War Debora Greger 2010
An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady) Geoffrey Chaucer 1602
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Day of the Refugios Alberto Ríos 1994
Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes 1994
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore 1961
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001

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