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Title Author Year
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
Elastic Love Contrapuntal Sarah Cooper 2023
The Birds’ Lullaby Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, Lauren K. Alleyne 2022
Booker T. And W.E.B. Dudley Randall 2009
And That Mysterious Word Holy Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
As dogs Rachel B. Glaser 2021
The Kitchen Chimney Robert Frost 1923
The Tay Bridge Disaster William McGonagall 1890
Song of the Open Road, 5 Walt Whitman 1891
Standards Sam Sax 2018
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Questions Rachel Richardson 2018
The Haunted Palace Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Past Suffers Too Ben Purkert 2018
Autumn Alexander Posey 1910
Shut Not Your Doors to Me Proud Libraries Walt Whitman 2016
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014
Spent Mark Doty 2013

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