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Title Author Year
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
My father washes his hands. Joseph O. Legaspi 2019
In Summer Twilight Joshua Henry Jones Jr. 1919
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
Beauty That is Never Old James Weldon Johnson 1921
My Table W. B. Yeats 1970
Labyrinth Kenyatta Rogers 2020
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
Mexican American Sonnet Iliana Rocha 2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year Dean Rader 2019
Jakarta, January Sarah Kay 2019
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128) William Shakespeare 1904
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way Martín Espada 2018
The Best Way I Can Describe It Dean Young 2018
Religious Instructions for Young Casualties Sandra María Esteves 2017
Aria Jenny Johnson 2017
Appeal Anne Brontë 2017
Hey Phil Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Dear America Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2016
Ceremonial Eduardo C. Corral 2015

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