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Title Author Year
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Dear P. Victoria Chang 2017
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
Grasshopper Ron Padgett 2011
Oread H.D. 1915
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443) Emily Dickinson 1890
First Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 2005
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
Elastic Love Contrapuntal Sarah Cooper 2023
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
A Coney Island of the Mind, 8 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
Will You? Carrie Fountain 2019
The Last Word of a Bluebird Robert Frost 2018
Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels Paola Capó-García 2018
Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603

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