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The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
The Traveling Onion Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
the earth is a living thing Lucille Clifton 1991
Regret Denise Low 2025
What Now? Gary Soto 2016
Eating Together Li-Young Lee 1986
Translation for Mamá Richard Blanco 2016
Six Unrhymed Sonnets Diane Seuss 2018
Book of Nonsense, 1, 10 & 12 Edward Lear 1846
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017
To the Film Industry in Crisis Frank O’Hara 1957
Notes from a Field Hospital Suji Kwock Kim 2026
The Adoration William Rose Benét 1919
Three Haiku Matsuo Bashō 2026
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names Assétou Xango 2017
The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth 1807
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
Stray Elizabeth Alexander 2018
To My Mother Edgar Allan Poe 1849

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