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Use These Poems with the Bronx Poet Laureate Edition
​ Poetry Meditation Cards 

1. Nayyirah Waheed’s Meditation
2. Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese (read while listening to AK and Liam's Peace of Mind here)
3. W.S. Merwin’s Place
4. Warsan Shire’s For Women Who Are Difficult to Love
5. Lucille Clifton’s homage to my hips. 
6. Joy Harjo’s Perhaps the World Ends Here.
7. Rumi’s The Guest House.
8. Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise. 
9. Kofi Awoonor’s Across a New Dawn. 
10. Emily Dickinson's After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
11. Jericho Brown’s Psalm 150.
12. Nikki Giovanni Nikki Rosa
13. Danez Smith's acknowledgments
14. Safiya Elhillo’s, spring.
15. Pablo Neruda's One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII
16. Roya Marsh's Blk Joy 
17. Nikki Giovanni's A Journey 
18. Kay Bell’s Dear Frida. 
19. Paul Lawrence Dunbar's Sympathy 
20. Adrienne Rich's Diving into the Wreck
21. Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
22. TS Eliot's The Waste Land
23. Shakespeare's The Phoenix and the Turtle
24. Walt Whitman Song of Myself
25. William Carlos Williams Spring and All

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