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Teach This Poem: “As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days” by Walt Whitman Teach This Poem: “Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa Teach This Poem: “La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted.” by Rita Dove Teach This Poem: "Tuesday 9/11/01" by Lucille Clifton Teach This Poem: "Old South Meeting House" by January Gill O'Neil Teach This Poem: “Kissing in Vietnamese” by Ocean Vuong Teach This Poem: “Spoken from the Hedgerows" by Jorie Graham Teach This Poem: “the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks Teach This Poem: “Peace Path” by Heid E. Erdrich Teach This Poem: “Sherbet” by Cornelius Eady Teaching the Vietnam War with Poetry and Archives Teach This Poem: “Dirt” by Kwame Dawes The Immigrant Experience Teach This Poem: “little prayer" by Danez Smith Teach This Poem: “Making History” by Marilyn Nelson Incredible Bridges: “Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander Teach This Poem: “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus On Marilyn Nelson's My Seneca Village Teach This Poem: "1905" by Marilyn Nelson We Sing America
