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Title Author Year
Relax Ellen Bass 2014
Crepuscule E. E. Cummings 1917
Since Hanna Moved Away Judith Viorst 1981
To Roosevelt Rubén Darío 1903
Goodtime Jesus James Tate 1979
The Carrying Ada Limón 2017
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About Judith Viorst 1981
Harlem: The Black City Fenton Johnson 1916
Requiescat Oscar Wilde 2018
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
Leaves Lloyd Schwartz 1992
I Have to Write the Book You’ll Burn Vievee Francis 2026
Nomenclatures of Invisibility Mahtem Shiferraw 2017
The Miscarriage Dorothea Lasky 2017
Go Down, Death James Weldon Johnson 1927
Lines for a Sun-Dial Alfred Noyes 1907
Election Year Richard Blanco 2016
Regret Denise Low 2025
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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