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Gwendolyn Brooks: “To the Diaspora” by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted by consent of Brooks Permissions.

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Emily Dickinson: #712 “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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Robert Frost: “Design” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1947, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright 1975 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC

Seamus Heaney: “Mid-Term Break” from The Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney. Repinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Faber and Faber, Ltd.

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Marge Piercy: :Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy. Copyright (c) 1971, 1982 by Marge Piercy and Middlemarch, Inc. From Circles on the Water, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First appeared in Moving Out, March 1971. Used by permission of the Wallace Literary Agency, Inc.

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William Carlos Williams: “This is Just to Say” from Collected Poems: 1909-1939, Vol. I by William Carlos Williams. Copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New Direction Publishing, Corporation.

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