"Touched by an Angel," by Maya Angelou
"Small Kindnesses," by Danusha Laméris
"The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock," by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Rosa Parks," by Nikki Giovanni
"Mozart, for Example," by Mary Oliver
"We Cast this Message," by Jimmy Carter
"Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1968," by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Good Bones," by Maggie Smith
"Remember," by Joy Harjo
"Perhaps the World Ends Here," by Joy Harjo
An Advent Poem by Wendell Berry
from "A Christmas Memory," by Truman Capote
"Word," by Madeleine L'Engle
"For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet," by Joy Harjo
Judy Chicago: A Prayer for Our Nation
"Welcome Morning," by Anne Sexton
"[the glory is fallen out of]" by E. E. Cummings
"The Silence," by Wendell Berry
"Morning Person," by Vassar Miller
"Please Call Me by My True Names," by Thich Nhat Hanh