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Title Author Year
Hands Safiya Sinclair 2015
The Thinker William Carlos Williams 2015
Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2015
To America James Weldon Johnson 1917
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America Ada Limón 2012
Cattails Nikky Finney 2011
To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore 1921
To Night Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Prose Poem Campbell McGrath 2003
Ode on Periods Bernadette Mayer 1998
Coronach Sir Walter Scott 1875
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
Albondigas Richard Siken 2025
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
Planet Dread Safiya Sinclair 2023
Soulwork Tracy K. Smith 2021
This Morning Luci Tapahonso 2020
women’s voting rights at one hundred (but who’s counting?) Evie Shockley 2020

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