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Title Author Year
If You Knew Ruth Muskrat Bronson 1923
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
The Planting of the Apple-Tree William Cullen Bryant 1864
To My Mother Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Advice to a Prophet Richard Wilbur 1961
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
Stoicism for Beginners Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Song of Hope Daisy Zamora 1995
Espergesia César Vallejo 1918
A Litany Of Atlanta W. E. B. Du Bois 1922
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
When I Became La Promesa Peggy Robles-Alvarado 2020
Song of Myself, 21 Walt Whitman 1891
Pan with Us Robert Frost 1915
Ghazal Tracy K. Smith 2018
Ode to My Hearing Aids Camisha L. Jones 2018
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017
Four-Leaf Clover Ella Higginson 2017

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