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Title Author Year
Firing Squad Ilya Kaminsky 2018
Oughta Be a Woman June Jordan 2017
El Beso Angelina Weld Grimké 1909
Art Class James Galvin 1997
The Aeneid, Book IV [So, you traitor] Virgil 2006
When We Look Up Denise Levertov 1966
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Song of Myself, 10 Walt Whitman 1891
1915 Robert Graves 1917
The Crying of Water Arthur Symons 1901
The Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 1927
Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926
Changing Is Not Vanishing Carlos Montezuma 1916
I wanted to be surprised. Jane Hirshfield 2020
The Dawn’s Awake! Otto Leland Bohanan 1922
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Forest Phillips 2019
From “1915: The Trenches” Conrad Aiken 1917
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo Wilfred Owen 2018
Everything That Ever Was Tracy K. Smith 2018

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