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Title Author Year
What Is Broken Is What God Blesses Jimmy Santiago Baca 2009
Signs of the Times Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
Lullaby of an Infant Chief Sir Walter Scott 1816
Live Blindly and Upon the Hour Trumbull Stickney 1917
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story Richard Harris Barham 1840
The Uses of Poetry William Carlos Williams 1909
Man and Camel Mark Strand 2006
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Martín Espada 2003
Fletcher McGee Edgar Lee Masters 1921
The Song in the Dream Saskia Hamilton 2001
The Suitor Jane Kenyon 1996
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
Little Lion Face May Swenson 1987
The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am A Poet Lynn Emanuel 1999
for goldfish that remember seaworld D’mani Thomas 2026
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Honeycrisp January Gill O’Neil 2026
What Is Good on January 8th, 2026? Kimiko Hahn 2026
Alliterative Autobiography [Classroom] Adam Giannelli 2026

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