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Title Author Year
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
Eating Alone Li-Young Lee 1986
Ghosts and Fashion Elaine Equi 2015
Perhaps the World Ends Here Joy Harjo 2015
Nothing Twice Wisława Szymborska 1998
So Much Happiness Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
Life is Fine Langston Hughes 1994
Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) John Donne 1633
Nine Spice Mix Zeina Azzam 2022
Theme in Yellow Carl Sandburg 1916
On Being Brought from Africa to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
Sailing to Byzantium W. B. Yeats 1928
On Work Kahlil Gibran 1923
Theme for English B Langston Hughes 1994
The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde 1898
Dumb Luck Catherine Barnett 2026
Mending Wall Robert Frost 1916
To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere Luisa A. Igloria 2018
Let Them Not Say Jane Hirshfield 2017
If We Must Die Claude McKay 1919

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