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Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping Adrian Castro 2005
Niagara José María Heredia 1827
Time-Sensitive Franny Choi 2023
Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo 2023
Dawn Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Island Langston Hughes 1995
Old South Meeting House January Gill O’Neil 2016
That Music Always Round Me Walt Whitman 1891
The Night Migrations Louise Glück 2006
The Aeneid, Book IV [So, you traitor] Virgil 2006
Medusa Patricia Smith 1992
I Went Out to Hear Leila Chatti 2023
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2022
Longing Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Dysphoria Oliver Baez Bendorf 2020
Dandelions Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
A Patch of Old Snow Robert Frost 2018
A Nativity Rudyard Kipling 2017

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