NEED AND CARE
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- Okay
- Lowell Jaeger
- Let’s Beat Up the Poor!
- Charles Baudelaire
- The Glass of Milk
- Manuel Rojas
- The Shopping-Bag Lady
- Linda Gregg
- Poverty Medicine
- David Hilfiker
- The Bath
- Laura Gilpin
- Admission, Children’s Unit
- Theodore Deppe
- please, thank you
- Dagoberto Gilb
- Giving
- Anne Lamott
DIFFERENCE AND CONNECTION
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- The Same Inside
- Anna Swir
- A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison
- Etheridge Knight
- Bilingual/Bilingüe
- Rhina Espaillat
- Nikki-Rosa
- Nikki Giovanni
- Say Yes
- Tobias Wolff
- How to Watch Your Brother Die
- Michael Lassell
- Gate A-4
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- You Will Forget
- Chenjerai Hove
- Death of a Doorman
- Catherine Tufariello
- Told in the Drooling Ward
- Jack London
TEACHING AND LEARNING
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- Learning the Trees
- Howard Nemerov
- The Boy Who Was Sacrificed
- Pawnee folktale as told by George Bird Grinnell
- What I Learned from My Mother
- Julia Kasdorf
- Hands
- Sherwood Anderson
- On Children
- Kahlil Gibran
- Islands of Decency
- Myles Horton
- Significant Other
- Rhina Espaillat
- What These Children Are Like
- Ralph Ellison
- Doctor Jack-o’-Lantern
- Richard Yates
- The Gift
- Li-Young Lee
SERVING AND PROTECTING
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- The Veteran
- Stephen Crane
- Letter to the Local Police
- June Jordan
- Summer Solstice, New York City
- Sharon Olds
- Wewiibitaan
- Jim Northrup
- Memorial Day
- Gregory Orr
- Facing It
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- On Some Streets
- Sarah Cortez
- What Every Soldier Should Know
- Brian Turner
- Singapore
- Mary Oliver
ACTION AND OUTCOMES
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- Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander*
- Thomas Merton
- A Journey
- Edward Field
- In Search of a Majority
- James Baldwin
- My Optimism
- Shao Yanxiang
- Sunrise
- Mary Oliver
- It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers
- Margaret Atwood
- Decisions
- Boris A. Novak
- Imagine the Angels of Bread
- Martín Espada
- What I Didn’t Know Then
- Kelli Covey
HERE AND NOW
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- The City
- Constantine Cavafy
- I’m Explaining a Few Things
- Pablo Neruda
- kitchenette building
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- What Kind of Times Are These
- Adrienne Rich
- Don’t Think
- Ahmad Faraz
- Trying to Name What Doesn’t Change
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- America
- Tony Hoagland
- Try to Praise the Mutilated World
- Adam Zagajewski
*Indicates a selection from a longer work
