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Title Author Year
How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual Pamela Spiro Wagner 2009
La Vie C’est La Vie Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
1990 special Charles Bukowski 2007
Te Deum Charles Reznikoff 1976
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
Dementia Is a New Way to Be Buddhist Kelli Russell Agodon 2025
The Truth About a Lie Leonora Speyer 1922
Imago Dei Nora Hikari 2024
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Loom Lee Trumpfheller 2024
Gitanjali 10 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
I Have Stood Up for You Carlos Montezuma 1919
Deer’s Breath of Every Color Max Early 2022
The Treasure Robinson Jeffers 1925
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
The Lynching Claude McKay 1922
American Smooth Rita Dove 2006

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