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Title	Author	Year
Nothing	Krysten Hill	2020
Some Call It God	Jabari Asim	2020
To a Rosebud	Eva A. Jessye	2020
The Sun Went Down in Beauty	George Marion McClellan	2020
Why I don’t write about George Floyd	Toi Derricotte	2020
Measured	Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon	2020
Singularity	Marissa Davis	2020
Afterward but not Afterword	A. Van Jordan	2020
Every Verb is a Lesson in Longing or Dread	April Freely	2020
YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON!	Sasha Debevec-McKenney	2020
Glory	Gbenga Adesina	2020
Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)	Joshua Bennett	2020
Judith and Holofernes	A. H. Jerriod Avant	2020
Contemplating Extinction as Theme in Basquiat’s “Pez Dispenser, 1984”	Kristina Kay Robinson	2020
Ode to the Head Nod	Elizabeth Acevedo	2020
I Can’t Breathe	Pamela Sneed	2020
We Drink at the Attenuation Well	Porsha Olayiwola	2020
For Black Children at the End of the World—and the Beginning	Roger Reeves	2020
Praise	Angelo Geter	2020
From “Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters”	Yusef Komunyakaa, Laren McClung	2020

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