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Global Warming Jane Hirshfield 2006
The World We Want Is Us Alice Walker 2016
Gabriel Adrienne Rich 2016
Human Habitat Alison Hawthorne Deming 2015
Unpacking a Globe Arthur Sze 2015
When There Were Ghosts Alberto Ríos 2014
The Tinajera Notebook Forrest Gander 2011
When I Heard at the Close of Day Walt Whitman 1891
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14 Homer 1715
La Vie C’est La Vie Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
It Was Raining in Delft Peter Gizzi 2003
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
Mnemosyne Trumbull Stickney 1902
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
ghost ranch Kristin Lueke 2026
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923

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