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Title Author Year
Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern David McCord 1952
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
One Sister have I in our house (14) Emily Dickinson 1890
Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
Thanksgiving Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2017
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017
For My People Margaret Walker 2017
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick 1648
Leda and the Swan W. B. Yeats 1923
To make a prairie (1755) Emily Dickinson 1951
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2011
Coherence in Consequence Claudia Rankine 2017
Let Them Not Say Jane Hirshfield 2017
What I Am Terrance Hayes 1999
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades Terrance Hayes 2017
Christmas Carol Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear 1871
A Visit from St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore 1823
Hurricane Yona Harvey 2017

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