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Title Author Year
2020 Catherine Barnett 2022
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
Wonder Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
What I Did Wrong Marie Howe 2017
The Past Louise Glück 2014
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
To America James Weldon Johnson 1917
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Work Without Hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1825
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
Ecce Puer James Joyce 1936
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Gitanjali 2 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
After the Winter Claude McKay 1922
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
The Onset Robert Frost 1923
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
A Coney Island of the Mind, 20 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1958
OBIT [The Blue Dress] Victoria Chang 2018

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