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James Brown’s Rhetoric - George Elliott Clarke
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On being brought from Africa to America
Read by Mary Jo Salter
On being brought from Africa to America - Phyllis Wheatley - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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Book 1, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queen
Read by Andrew Motion
Book 1, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser - Read by Andrew Motion
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Song of Myself
Read by David Yezzi
by Walt Whitman
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman - Read by David Yezzi
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Read by David Yezzi
by Walt Whitman