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A Wicker Basket
Robert Creeley

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1991

A Work Of Artifice
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1970

Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Margaret Atwood

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1974

Bag of Bones
Dunya Mikhail

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2005

Ballad
Sonia Sanchez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Ballad of Birmingham
Dudley Randall

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Barbara Frietchie
John Greenleaf Whittier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1863

Barbie Doll
Marge Piercy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1890

Beowulf
Transl. Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1000

Between the World and Me
Richard Wright

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1935

Between Walls
William Carlos Williams

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1938

Beware Soul Brother
Chinua Achebe

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1972

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

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2011

Birches
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1915

Birdfoot’s Grampa
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1975

Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Blackberry Picking
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1966

Black Cat
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Black Woman
Léopold Sédar Senghor

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1945

Blessing the Boats
Lucille Clifton

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2000

Blizzard
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Blood
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2003

Blowin' in the Wind
Bob Dylan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Boy at the Window
Richard Wilbur

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1952

Boy Breaking Glass
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1987

Break
Dorianne Laux

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Break of Day
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1998

Bullet Points
Jericho Brown

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2019

Burning a Book
William Stafford

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1999

Burning the Old Year
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995

Butter
Elizabeth Alexander

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1996

Caged Bird
Maya Angelou

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1983

Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1888

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Catullus 51
Gaius Valerius Catullus

Fiction | Poem | Adult | BCE

Channel Firing
Thomas Hardy

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

Cherrylog Road
James Dickey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1963

Childhood
Margaret Walker

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1989

Childhood Memories
William Saphier

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Children’s Rhymes
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1926

Chosen
Marilyn Nelson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1990

Christabel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1816

Citizen Illegal
José Olivarez

Fiction | Poetry Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

Coal
Audre Lorde

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1976

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
William Wordsworth

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1807

Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1836

Conscientious Objector
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1934

Counting Descent
Clint Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1932

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Walt Whitman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1856

Crossing the Bar
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1889

Crusoe in England
Elizabeth Bishop

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1971

Cynthia in the Snow
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1956

Daddy
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1964

Dante's Inferno
Dante Alighieri

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1307

Dark Night of the Soul
John of the Cross

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1583

Dawn
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1912

Dead Stars
Ada Limón

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Dear Basketball
Kobe Bryant

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Dear Future Generations: Sorry
Prince Ea

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

dear white america
Danez Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2017

Death
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1933

Death Be Not Proud
John Donne

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Declaration
Tracy K. Smith

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2018

Deer Hit
Jon Loomis

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001

Delight in Disorder
Robert Herrick

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Depression
Sonia Sanchez

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1978

Did I Miss Anything?
Tom Wayman

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1993

Different Ways to Pray
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Digging
Seamus Heaney

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Dim Lady
Harryette Mullen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2002

Dirt
Kwame Dawes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1973

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1951

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Anonymous

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1930

Dothead
Amit Majmudar

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2016

Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1867

Dreams
Linda Pastan

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979

Dreams
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Dreams
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Dreams
Helen Hunt Jackson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1884

Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
Robert Bly

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1962

Drum Dream Girl
Margarita Engle

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

Dulce et Decorum est
Wilfred Owen

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1920

Dusting
Marilyn Nelson

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1994

Dusting
Rita Dove

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Dust of Snow
Robert Frost

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1923

Early in the Morning
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

East Coker
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1940

Easter, 1916
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Easter Wings
George Herbert

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1633

Eating Alone
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult

Eating Together
Li-Young Lee

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1986

Ebb
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1921

Edge
Sylvia Plath

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1965

Ego Tripping
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Elegy for the Native Guards
Natasha Trethewey

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2007

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1751

Elena
Pat Mora

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1984