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All TitlesModern FictionClassic FictionNonfictionPlaysEssaysPoetryMiddle Grade/YA
We Are Not Responsible
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Wedding Poem
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

We Have Been Friends Together
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1850

We Lived Happily During the War
Ilya Kaminsky

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

We never know how high we are
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1880

We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1960

Western Wind
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1500

West-Running Brook
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1928

We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1895

Whales Weep Not!
D. H. Lawrence

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1932

What Do Women Want?
Kim Addonizio

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Whatever You Say, Say Nothing
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

What mystery pervades a well!
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

What Soft — Cherubic Creatures
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1896

What Teachers Make
Taylor Mali

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

What the Living Do
Marie Howe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

What Work Is
Philip Levine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

When Dawn Comes to the City
Claude McKay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1922

When Death Comes
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

When I Consider How My Light is Spent
John Milton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1673

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Chen Chen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
John Keats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1848

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1865

When There Were Ghosts
Alberto Ríos

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

When the World as We Knew It Ended
Joy Harjo

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

When We Two Parted
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1893

WHEREAS
Layli Long Soldier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
Martín Espada

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Whose cheek is this?
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1859

Who Understands Me but Me
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Wild Bees
James K. Baxter

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1949

Wild Geese
Mary Oliver

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2004

Wild Nights Wild Nights
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1891

Wind
Ted Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1957

Wind, Water, Stone
Octavio Paz

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Wingfoot Lake
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Wirers
Siegfried Sassoon

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1918

wishes for sons
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Women
Alice Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Woodchucks
Maxine Kumin

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

Works and Days
Hesiod

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

Wuthering Heights
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1961

You Are Jeff
Richard Siken

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

You Can Have It
Philip Levine

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

[you fit into me]
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Young
Anne Sexton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Yvain, or the Knight With the Lion
Chrétien De Troyes

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1176