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Title Author Year
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
The Past Louise Glück 2014
Forever Margaret Ross 2026
Acknowledgement of Lenape Lands Denise Low 2024
Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo 2023
Let There Be Manny Loley 2021
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
Song of Myself, 21 Walt Whitman 1891
The House of Ghosts Margaret Widdemer 2018
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
Kingdom Animalia Aracelis Girmay 2012
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) Emily Dickinson 1890
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
Opal Amy Lowell 1919

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