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Title Author Year
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer John Keats 1816
From “Elegy in Joy” Muriel Rukeyser 2011
Block City Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
i take my glasses off Lucille Clifton 2026
A World Made By Atoms Margaret Cavendish 1653
our general banality fahima ife 2022
Gathering Leaves Robert Frost 1923
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time] Claudia Rankine 2004
The Distant Moon Rafael Campo 1994
Mercury Suzanne Cleary 2026
The Cowboy James Tate 2008
A Story Li-Young Lee 1990
miss rosie Lucille Clifton 1987
The Quiet Shift Anita Nahal 2026
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
When the Neighbor Boys Gathered Hieu Minh Nguyen 2014
Dewdrops Myra Viola Wilds 1915
Dream Song 4 John Berryman 1959
A New American South: Impressions from the Front Porch on Juneteenth Salaam Green 2025
Hymn to the Sun José de Espronceda 1913

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