Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Ozymandias	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1818
Lift Every Voice and Sing	James Weldon Johnson	1917
If—	Rudyard Kipling	1910
Letter to Lucy (1803–1808)	Pamela Alexander	1991
Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful.	Perry Janes	2023
The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, XXVII	Al-Ma‘arri	1920
Salutamus	Sterling A. Brown	1927
The Marathon Runner	Fenton Johnson	1927
The Laureate Fellows’ Collaborative Poem	Brian Sonia-Wallace, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, Semaj Brown, Luisa A. Igloria, Georgina Marie Guardado, Lloyd Schwartz, Aileen Cassinetto, Marcus Amaker, Magdalena Gómez, Bobby LeFebre, Melissa Kwasny, Dasha Kelly Hamilton, Chasity Gunn	2022
At The Corner of New Orleans and Frontier - At Disneyland	Matt Mason	2022
My Hero	Benjamin Brawley	1922
Address What Matters	Gailmarie Pahmeier	2017
When Nothing Else Will Do	Lynne Thompson	2021
Life's Leaders	Elsa Gidlow	1923
Sic Vita	William Stanley Braithwaite	1922
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach	Philip Whalen	2007
Hog Meat	Daniel Webster Davis	1922
The Road To The Bow	James D. Corrothers	1922
Compensation	James Edwin Campbell	1922
In the courtyard	Alexandria Peary	2011

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