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Title Author Year
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
Haunted Seas Cale Young Rice 1921
Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore 1961
[It was summer when I found you] Sappho 1907
Before William Ernest Henley 1908
Suicide’s Note Langston Hughes 1926
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Purple Kwame Dawes 2019
To My Brother Vera Brittain 2018
Endymion Oscar Wilde 2018
I come from the fire city. Eve L. Ewing 2018
Phenomenal Woman (audio only) Maya Angelou 1978
Letter to the Northern Lights Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2016
November Helen Hunt Jackson 1891
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
To a Mouse, Robert Burns 1786
Horses at Midnight Without a Moon Jack Gilbert 2012
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] Eliza Lee Follen 1832
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667

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