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Title Author Year
That Music Always Round Me Walt Whitman 1891
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI) Sir Walter Scott 1805
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Starlight William Meredith 1997
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966
Well Water Randall Jarrell 1969
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
Medusa Patricia Smith 1992
Where Is My Friend? Dorianne Laux 2026
I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married Aaron Smith 2025
A Friendship Sophie Jewett 1910
Tableau Countee Cullen 1925
Pan with Us Robert Frost 1915
Water in Love Ed Bok Lee 2018
I Ask My Mother to Sing Li-Young Lee 2017
Drone Kazim Ali 2016
Rooms Remembered Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2015
Grief Work Natalie Diaz 2015
Deep in the Quiet Wood James Weldon Johnson 2015

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