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Title Author Year
Scaffolding Seamus Heaney 2016
Calvin Hernton Seeks to Build and Preserve a House Calvin C. Hernton 2023
Rhythms (Section I) Charles Reznikoff 1927
In the House With No Doors Sarah Kay 2023
Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees Ansel Elkins 2023
The Honest Tongue Laura Da’ 2023
Tenebris Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
My House Claude McKay 1927
Russian Cathedral Claude McKay 1927
The Listeners Walter de la Mare 1912
The Haunted House Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1834
house hunting as an act of faith t’ai freedom ford 2022
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode Airea D. Matthews 2019
“Uvalde Shooting Highlights Role of Doors in Security Plans” Deborah Paredez 2022
To the "Flat Iron" Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Bird Saver Alexandria Peary 2014
Afternoon in Andalusia Sahar Romani 2022
Jaguar Song Arthur Sze 2021
The Office Building Helen Hoyt 1918
Landscape with a Hundred Turns Yanyi 2021

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