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Title Author Year
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
Miniver Cheevy Edwin Arlington Robinson 1910
Old Story Catherine Barnett 2012
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Empty my heart of thee — (146) Emily Dickinson 1929
Black Earth Marianne Moore 1921
Letters Found Near a Suicide Frank Horne 1927
Sunflowers Jenny George 2022
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
The Pact Victoria Redel 2022
Appalling Heart Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017
pantoum for aiyana & not a single hashtag Aurielle Marie 2021
In the Heart of a Rose George Marion McClellan 1916
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur Ellen Bass 2020
Tomboy Claudia Masin, Robin Myers 2019
River to River Hai-Dang Phan 2019
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1903
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922

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