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Title Author Year
Acknowledgement of Lenape Lands Denise Low 2024
Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC Aaron Tyler Hand 2024
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart Alessandra Narváez Varela 2021
Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me Jane Hirshfield 2021
Cross Langston Hughes 1922
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (Sonnet 62) William Shakespeare 1904
Corpse Flower Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2018
Autumn Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror Mary Jo Bang 2017
Hunch Jay Parini 2016
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick 1648

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