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Title Author Year
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998
Notes for Canto CXX Ezra Pound 1956
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With Suzanne Rancourt 2004
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
Yellow Moon Angela Manalang-Gloria 1927
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
[The faint shadow of the morning moon?] Yone Noguchi 1920
Sometimes There Is A Day Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Harlem Wine Countee Cullen 1925
Riddle Jericho Brown 2019
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
Watershed Tracy K. Smith 2017
Hurricane Yona Harvey 2017
A Woman Sleeps on an Island Marjorie Agosín 2016
ode to the puritan in me Ross Gay 2016
Self-Portrait as Artemis Tarfia Faizullah 2015
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Text Messages Jordan Davis 2010
Olney Hymns, I, [Walking with God] William Cowper 1779
Art Class James Galvin 1997

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