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Title Author Year
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
For my Brother(s) Lauren K. Alleyne 2020
Untethered Allison Joseph 2020
My California Lee Herrick 2008
Hundreds of Purple Octopus Moms Are Super Weird, and They’re Doomed January Gill O’Neil 2019
Third Rock from the Sun Dorianne Laux 2019
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest (Sonnet 11) William Shakespeare 1904
The Peacemaker Joyce Kilmer 2018
Blues on Yellow Marilyn Chin 2018
Arms and the Boy Wilfred Owen 2018
The Average Mother Camille T. Dungy 2018
Unrest in Baton Rouge Tracy K. Smith 2018
Upon the Heights Yone Noguchi 2017
Magdalene: The Woman Taken in Adultery Marie Howe 2017
Sketch Carl Sandburg 1916
Kafka’s Axe & Michael’s Vest Chen Chen 2017
The Time Machine Laura Kasischke 2017
Telephones from the 50s Gary Soto 2016
The Everglades Campbell McGrath 2016
To E Sara Teasdale 2016

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