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Title Author Year
The Death of the Hired Man Robert Frost 2018
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
Southern Road Sterling A. Brown 1980
A Negro Love Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
Believing in Iron Yusef Komunyakaa 1992
When that I was and a little tiny boy William Shakespeare 1602
The Artist Orpheus Donald Justice 1995
The woman who cut and painted my toenails Megan Levad Beisner 2025
The Owl Gia Anansi-Shakur 2025
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
New Orleans Love Poem Nicole Cooley 2023
If You Have Had Your Midnights Mari Evans 2007
From “The World After Rain” Canisia Lubrin 2023
Gitanjali 14 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 56 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Your Hands Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
This Is Not Love Elsa Gidlow 1923
Spring Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Blues Fantasy Langston Hughes 1926

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