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Title Author Year
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
Blue May Swenson 1994
A Divine Image William Blake 1794
The Bricklayer Luis Chaves 2026
On the far side of pleasure Samuel Ace 2026
Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton & Everybody Shows Up with Their Instrument Instead Daniel B. Summerhill 2026
Window Art Kwame Dawes 2026
Queer Trivia Night Jenny Johnson 2026
A Poem about Home Bettina Judd 2025
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
La Guerre (II) E. E. Cummings 2025
Prometheus Lord George Gordon Byron 1898
When The World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day Lehua M. Taitano 2024
[The will to see oneself as fragile] Tracy K. Smith 2023
Wetland francine j. harris 2023
After Striving Corrie Lynn White 2023
Abstract with Red Square Jenny Xie 2022
The Flight of the Crows Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had Franny Choi 2022
Rivers Nicolás Guillén 1972

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