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John Steinbeck

“The Turtle” from The Grapes of Wrath

John F. Kennedy

“Inaugural Address”

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Langston Hughes

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

Langston Hughes

“Harlem”

Langston Hughes

“I, Too”

Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

John Hersey

Hiroshima

Bernard Malamud

“The First Seven Years”

Flannery O’Connor

“The Life You Save May Be Your Own”

Robert Frost

“Birches”

Robert Frost

“Mending Wall”

Raymond Carver

“Everything Stuck to Him”

William Stafford

“Traveling through the Dark”

Denise Levertov

“The Secret”

Li-Young Lee

“The Gift”

Stanley Kunitz

“Halley’s Comet”

Martín Espada

“Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper”

Yusef Komunyakaa

“Camouflaging the Chimera”

Naomi Shihab Nye

“Streets”

Judith Ortiz Cofer

“The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica”

Julia Alvarez

“Antojos”