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Title Author Year
Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog Kaveh Akbar 2025
finding tomorrow m.s. RedCherries 2024
Dirtbag Leigh Lucas 2023
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
Moon Over Gaza Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
brd Anthony Cody 2020
If You Should Go Countee Cullen 1922
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods Walt Whitman
Prayer for My Immigrant Relatives Lory Bedikian 2018
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon 1920
Christmas in the Heart Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
breaking away to the u.s. José B. González 2017
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last Lisa Olstein 2016
Mist Henry David Thoreau 2015
Song of the Deathless Voice Abram Joseph Ryan 1880
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
Starlight William Meredith 1997

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