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Title Author Year
To My Daughter’s Dead Name Lance Larsen 2025
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2019
Song of Myself, 26 Walt Whitman 1891
The Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017
Afternoons Jorge H. Aigla 2016
Bringing the Shovel Down Ross Gay 2016
Life Joe Brainard 2012
Lines: 'When the Lamp is Shattered' Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
The Star Jane Taylor 1806
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
Bond and Free Robert Frost 1916
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
Rain Claribel Alegría 2003
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] Christopher Smart 1939
I begin the day thinking Taylor Byas 2025
A Cry from an Indian Wife Emily Pauline Johnson 1900
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
Minstrel Man Langston Hughes 1925

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