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Title Author Year
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
Brahma Ralph Waldo Emerson 1857
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
Silhouette Janice Lobo Sapigao 2020
Long, Too Long America Walt Whitman
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2019
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
After the Winter Claude McKay 2015
To Winter William Blake
Tanka Sadakichi Hartmann 1916
Like Any Good American Brynn Saito 2013
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023
A Litany Of Atlanta W. E. B. Du Bois 1922
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Holdfast Robin Beth Schaer 2019

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