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• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on

  Choi, Franny,

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  "What I want you to know is that we're okay. Hurting / but okay." --Franny Choi

• Kaddish

  Before the Holocaust and After

  Yolen, Jane,

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  "Do not be fooled again. / Their people are our people. / The lamp lifts for all of us." --Jane Yolen

• Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod

  Brimhall, Traci, 1982-

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  "The wind is cold and incessant and everything in me / wants to live." --Traci Brimhall

• A Fortune for Your Disaster

  Poems

  Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-

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  “The difference between a warning and a threat is all a matter of what you've lived through.” --Hanif Abdurraqib

• The Tradition

  Brown, Jericho

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  "We do not know the history / Of this nation in ourselves." --Jericho Brown

• Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

  Gay, Ross, 1974-

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  “I swore when I got into this poem I would convert / this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics / I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts / of our desolation.” --Ross Gay

• The Book of the Dead

  Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980,

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  “The scene of hope's ahead; look, April, / and next month with a softer wind, / maybe they'll rest upon their land, / and then maybe the happy song, and love, / a tall boy who was never in a tunnel.” --Muriel Rukeyser

• Electric Arches

  Ewing, Eve L.

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  "I believe that the sun shines / if not here, then somewhere." --Eve L. Ewing

• A Little Daylight Left

  Kay, Sarah, 1988-

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  "blue skies is a sight I have never trusted again & poetry is what I reached for in the days when the ash would not stop falling..." ---Sarah Kay

• Call Us What We Carry

  Poems

  Gorman, Amanda, 1998-

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  “We do not hope for no reason. / Hope is the reason for itself." --Amanda Gorman

• When My Brother Was An Aztec

  Diaz, Natalie

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  "Tonight I am riddled by this thick skull." --Natalie Diaz

• The Tiny Journalist

  Poems

  Nye, Naomi Shihab,

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  “You are the witness, on-the-scene, microphone / in hand. You stand on the road to everywhere..." --Naomi Shihab Nye

• Devotions

  the Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

  Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019

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  "Look, and look again. This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes. It’s more than bones. It’s more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse. It’s more than the beating of the single heart. It’s praising." --Mary Oliver

• Wade in the Water

  Poems

  Smith, Tracy K.

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  “Is it strange to say love is a language / Few practice, but all, or near all speak?” --Tracy K. Smith

• An American Sunrise

  Poems

  Harjo, Joy,

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  “It was impossible to make it through the tragedy / Without poetry. What are we without winds becoming words?” --Joy Harjo

• Time Is a Mother

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  “I caved and decided it will be joy from now on.” --Ocean Vuong

• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

  Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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  “Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.” --Langston Hughes

• Appalachian Elegy

  Poetry and Place

  hooks, bell, 1952-2021

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  “Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.” --bell hooks

• The Asking

  New and Selected Poems

  Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-

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  “Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder.” --Jane Hirshfield

• For Every One

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  “THIS LETTER / IS FOR US ALL, to remind us that we are many. That we are right for trying. That purpose is real. That making it is possible.” --Jason Reynolds