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Title Author Year
My Life Was the Size of My Life Jane Hirshfield 2015
14 haiku Sonia Sanchez 2016
To My Mother Christina Rossetti 1842
From “Birthday Letters” (I) Christian Campbell 2026
Our Land Langston Hughes 1925
Revolutionary Letter #1 Diane di Prima 1971
What It Must Have Felt Like Ada Limón 2020
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour” Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Coffee Matthew Dickman 2017
Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker 2016
The Republic of Poetry Martín Espada 2016
Love James Russell Lowell 2016
That Music Always Round Me Walt Whitman 1891
The Aeneid, Book I [Arms and the man I sing] Virgil 1907
A Green Crab’s Shell Mark Doty 1995
There Lives a Young Girl Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Sport Langston Hughes 1927
The Narrow Way Anne Brontë 2017
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905

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