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Title Author Year
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966
Happiness Jane Kenyon 2001
cutting greens Lucille Clifton 1974
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
The Boat Christine de Pisan 2026
The Broken English Dream Pedro Pietri 2015
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
In the Beginning Donika Kelly 2021
Riddle Jericho Brown 2019
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Natural History Sam Hamill 2018
Corpse Flower Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2018
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker John Olivares Espinoza 2017
The Sound of the Trees Robert Frost 1916
Lamia [Left to herself] John Keats 1820
Of Many Worlds in this World Margaret Cavendish 1653
Harriet Tubman Eloise Greenfield 2003
On My First Son Ben Jonson 1603

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