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Title Author Year
Obituary Generator Mariah Bosch 2021
Disclosure Camisha L. Jones 2020
The Past Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
What We Cannot Hear Ilya Kaminsky 2019
Standards Sam Sax 2018
In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife Megan Fernandes 2017
Morning Song Sara Teasdale 1920
A Patriotic Creed Edgar Guest
Tuesday 9/11/01 Lucille Clifton 2017
The World We Want Is Us Alice Walker 2016
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60) William Shakespeare 2016
The Dream Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Of the Surface of Things Wallace Stevens 1919
The Planting of the Apple-Tree William Cullen Bryant 1864
Night Baseball Michael Blumenthal 1984
We Manage Most When We Manage Small Linda Gregg 2008
Ashore Ernest Hilbert 2009
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
Pillow Li-Young Lee 2001

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