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To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train Bao Phi 2024
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me Jane Hirshfield 2021
Map Linda Hogan 2014
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
The Bronze Legacy Effie Lee Newsome 1922
Untitled Rachel McKibbens 2014
Meeting and Passing Robert Frost 2013
September Elegies Randall Mann 2010
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
The Visionary Emily Brontë 1846
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
News Item Dorothy Parker 1926
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
Aspen Tree Paul Celan 2020
Absolute Jacqueline Woodson 2020
Childhood Memories William Saphier 1920
Blue-Butterfly Day Robert Frost 1923

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