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Women
Alice Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Tam O’Shanter
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1791

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

You Are Jeff
Richard Siken

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

América
Richard Blanco

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Sonnet
James Weldon Johnson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

Drum Dream Girl
Margarita Engle

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

We never know how high we are
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1880

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

"B" (If I Should Have a Daughter)
Sarah Kay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

Easter, 1916
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Fifth Grade Autobiography
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

A Dream Within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1849

God’s Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

(Love Song, With Two Goldfish)
Grace Chua

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

I Go Back to May 1937
Sharon Olds

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

And the People Stayed Home
Kitty O’Meara

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2020

Abend Der Worte
Paul Celan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1950

The Partial Explanation
Charles Simic

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

The Good Life
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

Hours Continuing Long
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

Necessities of Life
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1532

I Am the People, the Mob
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

dear white america
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

My Father's Love Letters
Yusef Komunyakaa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Languages
Carl Sandburg

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

Graveyard Blues
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1932

Selecting a Reader
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1609

[love is more thicker than forget]
E. E. Cummings

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1939

The Burning Babe
Robert Southwell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1595

Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep A Gun In The House
Billy Collins

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

It won’t be a bullet
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

The Sun Rising
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Sailing to Byzantium
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

My Father's Hats
Mark Irwin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Mr. Grumpledump's Song
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

The Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1872

To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
Phillis Wheatley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1773

On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City
Sherman Alexie

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

To One Coming North
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

North
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Paterson
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1946

Knock Knock
Daniel Beaty

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Storm Ending
Jean Toomer

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [“Probably twilight ...”]
Terrance Hayes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Entrance
Dana Gioia

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

The End of Science Fiction
Lisel Mueller

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

The Flock
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1985

Dear Future Generations: Sorry
Prince Ea

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Break of Day
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Harlem
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

The Expatriates
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1981

The Soldier
Rupert Brooke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Fire and Ice
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Tattoo
Ted Kooser

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1860

The War Works Hard
Dunya Mikhail

Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

If We Must Die
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1919

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1794

Birdfoot’s Grampa
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

When I Consider How My Light is Spent
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

Declaration
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1768

Wingfoot Lake
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

A Great Need
Hafez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1300

What Do Women Want?
Kim Addonizio

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

The Coming on of Night
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

Elena
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984

The Rider
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Le Lai de Lanval
Marie De France

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

The Song of the Shirt
Thomas Hood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1843

A narrow Fellow in the Grass (1096)
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

Epilogue
Robert Lowell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1977

How Falling in Love is like Owning a Dog
Taylor Mali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

I, Too
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

At the Galleria Shopping Mall
Tony Hoagland

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2009

Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Thanatopsis
William Cullen Bryant

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1817

Children’s Rhymes
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

The Munich Mannequins
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Love Poem
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Tired
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1931

At the Gym
Mark Doty

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

The Satyricon
Petronius, Transl. Piero Chiara, Transl. P.G. Walsh

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 60

Break
Dorianne Laux

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

To Help the Monkey Cross the River
Thomas Lux

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

The Paper Nautilus
Marianne Moore

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

To Autumn
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1820

Dreams
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

The Guitar
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002