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Title Author Year
Prayer Langston Hughes 1927
Rock Me to Sleep Elizabeth Akers Allen 1859
Ah! Sunflower William Blake 1794
Courage Lee Herrick 2026
Incident Countee Cullen 1927
New American Huascar Medina 2020
It was easier to manage Arisa White
The Dream of Knife, Fork, and Spoon Kimiko Hahn 2016
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you] William Shakespeare 2016
Poems Rabindranath Tagore 1912
Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty Thomas James 2008
The Visitor Jack Prelutsky 1974
Miscarriage Christine Stewart-Nuñez 2024
Harlem Night Song Langston Hughes 1926
The Sentry Wilfred Owen 2018
The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning 1842
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
Calling Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1920
To the River— Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Love Song for Love Songs Rafael Campo 2012

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