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Title Author Year
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
Old Story Catherine Barnett 2012
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026
Goodness Afaa Michael Weaver 2026
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
Ocean Robinson Jeffers 1928
Family Secret Nancy Kuhl 2023
Gitanjali 90 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Virginia, Autumn Molly McCully Brown 2023
Letters Found Near a Suicide Frank Horne 1927
The Atom No. 18 Sarah Mangold 2022
The Cataclysm Ameen Rihani 1921
Patients Aurora Levins Morales 2013
Spring Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Harlem Wine Countee Cullen 1925

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