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Title Author Year
Memorial Day for the War Dead Yehuda Amichai 1977
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
The Feast of Lights Emma Lazarus 1882
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm Wo Chan 2026
Salt Song Arthur Sze 2021
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Ocean Robinson Jeffers 1928
Gitanjali 20 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
The Corn Husker Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2022
The Treasure Robinson Jeffers 1925
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
This Is Not Love Elsa Gidlow 1923
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Proof Tiana Clark 2021
For a Lady I Know Countee Cullen 1925

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