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Title Author Year
Burn Out Amy M. Alvarez 2026
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 2009
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney 2006
Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle Henry Charles Beeching 1895
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
Open Market on Sài Sơn Mountain Hồ Xuân Hương 2026
Spring Night Sara Teasdale 1915
Woodchucks Maxine Kumin 1972
I cautious scanned my little life (19) Emily Dickinson 1929
Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home) Patrick Rosal 2024
If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert Natalie Diaz 2021
The Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 1986
Recitative Hart Crane 1926
Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Here Arthur Sze 1998
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires Forrest Gander 2020
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows Paige Lewis 2018

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