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Title Author Year
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
The Farewell Kahlil Gibran 1923
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
A New National Anthem Ada Limón 2018
Praise Song for the Day Elizabeth Alexander 2009
A Myth of Devotion Louise Glück 2006
The Rivals Mark Van Doren 1926
Election Year Richard Blanco 2016
Descendancy Denise Low 2024
Relax Ellen Bass 2014
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
Nomenclatures of Invisibility Mahtem Shiferraw 2017
The Carrying Ada Limón 2017
If I should die (54) Emily Dickinson 1860
Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 1989
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
A Pact Ezra Pound 1913
Crepuscule E. E. Cummings 1917

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