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Title Author Year
Homesick Blues Langston Hughes 1927
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
A Song for Merry Harvest Eliza Cook 2017
The Dream of Knife, Fork, and Spoon Kimiko Hahn 2016
To a Dead Friend Langston Hughes 1922
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt] Aimé Césaire 2001
We Were All Odysseus in Those Days Amorak Huey 2019
Christmastide Christina Rossetti 2018
Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today Emily Jungmin Yoon 2018
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you] William Shakespeare 2016
Dreams Edgar Allan Poe 2015
América Richard Blanco 1998
The Embrace Mark Doty 1998
The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping Adrian Castro 2005
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War Joy Harjo 2019
Song of the Open Road, 15 Walt Whitman 1891
Mediterranean Blue Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' Agha Shahid Ali 1987
Song of Myself, 2 Walt Whitman 2019
I Have this Way of Being Jamaal May 2016

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